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A human skull that's about 8,000 years old was found in the Minnesota River south of Sacred Heart.

The Renville County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday said two kayakers came across the bone in September 2021. The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office determined the bone was human, and the FBI's forensic anthropologist concluded the bone belonged to a young adult man.

The skull has a depressed area, which is consistent with blunt force trauma, the sheriff's office said.

Through Carbon-14 analysis, preliminary information indicates the man would have been alive between 5,500-6,000 BCE, so nearly 8,000 years ago.

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I’ve known some old heads, but......

Been voting Democrat for 8000 years, gotta be a MN record.

Damn, that's pretty close to the ending of the last glaciation in that area.

His “marine diet” is interesting. I’m sure the coastline was a little different back then. 😁

Gotta laugh about BCE E instead of BC. They use the same Person to separate time period.

No pic of the skull. Would be interesting to see if it was Mongoloid..... or Caucasoid.....

Yep. Always pisses me off. Atheist bastards.

They were posting pics of the skull, but the Injuns got riled up and most sites took the pics down. It is only the top part of a skull, but amazing that much could survive in a river.






Sheriff department officials posted a photo of the skull on Facebook Wednesday, but the post was later removed after Native Americans groups in Minnesota said publishing it was “very offensive to the Native American culture,” the New York Times reported.

Sheriff Scott Hable, who could not be reached for comment early Friday, said he was blown away by the miraculous find.


“I don’t think anybody was anticipating the news to come,” Hable told the newspaper.

The man likely traveled through parts of what is now Minnesota during the Archaic period in North America, Hable said.

A professor of anthropology at Minnesota State University said the man likely subsisted on plants, deer, fish and turtles and freshwater mussels in the area.

“There’s probably not that many people at that time wandering around Minnesota 8,000 years ago, because, like I said, the glaciers have only retreated a few thousand years before that,” Kathleen Blue told the Times. “That period, we don’t know much about it.”

Hable said the depression on the man’s skull showed evidence of “blunt force trauma,” but it’s unclear how he died.


But Blue said she believed the wound had healed since it appeared smooth and rounded in photos, indicating it wasn’t his cause of death.

“It would have been something he actually survived,” Blue said. “Bone has an amazing ability to try to sort of fix itself after there’s been a traumatic injury.”

The skull was most certainly from an ancestor of one of the Native American tribes in the area today, Blue said. It’s now expected to be returned to tribes in Minnesota, according to Hable.

“To say we were taken back is an understatement,” Hable told the Washington Post. “None of us were prepared for that.”

I’m trying to recall what I read about the Great Plains Seaway at the Missouri/Yellowstone Confluence Center when I was there a few years ago.
I don’t remember the time period, but there was a great shallow seaway that connected the Northern Pacific with the Gulf of Mexico. It split the continent of North America in two.
Could be this fellow lived on the coast in Minnesota!
7mm

Pretty interesting stuff.
Especially the diet.
Salt water closer via st lawerence system area
Than over continent to pacific.
Read alot about a possible meteor strike on glacier shelf north of great lakes region 13 to 15000 yrs ago caused the st lawerence system, Mississippi sytem and great lakes to form.
Also affected climate with massive dump of cold water into the alantic.
Which also is theorized why their is a 5 to 7 ft layer of silt in the artifact layers of about 4k years in the mid alantic coast area from the dump of cold water in the alantic and making those areas inhabitable.
Which also drove early man into the middle of the continent over the Appalachians.

All theory tied together in ways.
But still interesting reading just google fu,ing stuff.

Having just a tiny bit of knowledge of certain things, I wonder what evidence she has to make that conclusion. If it was only a few thousand years after "ice out", how does she know which language group was in the area, passing through on their way to another area, or with that healed over knot in his skull maybe he was a captured slave from another group and not an ancestor at all?

You are not allowed to question the narrative!

They need to open a murder investigation.

Quite possibly, he, if it was a he, never procreated.

Lots of assumptions.

Mafia hit....

I bet they voted Democrat too.

No doubt an ancient white person of tribal authority and privilege murdered that guy.......so 8000 yrs of reparations are in order.

I honestly can't think of a more worthless state than Minnesota.

Research also revealed that the indigenous tribe to which he belonged, murdered him after he said something that made sense.