A human skull discovered by kayakers in the USA has been found to have been around 8,000 years old. The group of paddlers made the grisly finding last Sep as they paddled along the Minnesota River, and forensic analysis shows the ancient skull belonged to a young adult male who...
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A human skull discovered by kayakers in the USA has been found to have been around 8,000 years old.
The group of paddlers made the grisly finding last Sep as they paddled along the Minnesota River, and forensic analysis shows the ancient skull belonged to a young adult male who was alive some time between 5,500-6,000 BC.
Carbon-14 analysis determined the man may have suffered blunt force trauma due to a depressed area on the fragment.
“Through reviewing the carbon-14, this individual would have had a heavy marine diet or a diet high in maize, pearl millet, or sorghum, which is outside the range of the American diet,” investigators from the Renville County Sheriff’s Office’s said.
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