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Human skull found on Indiana riverbank is over 4,000 years old, coroner says

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(CBS News) — Human remains from ancient times were discovered several months ago along a riverbank in rural Indiana, officials announced this week. Scientific analyses, including carbon dating, confirmed that the finding on the bank of Fayette County’s Whitewater River was once a portion of a human skull, the Fayette County Coroner’s Office said in a social media post Monday. The tests also traced the origin of the remains back to around 2300 BC…

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Human skull found on Indiana riverbank is over 4,000 years old, coroner says

A portion of an ancient human skull was discovered earlier this year along a riverbank in rural Indiana, local officials announced this week.

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Found Human Remains that Are Thousands of Years Old in a River in Indiana

Human remains discovered along the banks of a river in central Indiana date back more than 4,000 years, according to the local coroner.

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