Often times, rivers offer up garbage that have made their way into the water.
Old boots, cans, sometimes lost cellphones; so it’s considered quite rare when human bones are found, even rarer when they aren’t from this millennium.
A story from the New York Times, details how two kayakers found a human skull while enjoying a Minnesota river last September.
The local police sent the bone off to a medical examiner’s office where it made it’s way to the FBI eventually.
Through carbon dating, it’s believed that the skull is that of a young man who lived between 5500 – 6000 BC.
The full story can be read here on the remains that are likely close to 8,000 years old.
