Human remains found in Iowa River belonged to prehistoric man

MARSHALL COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) – A human jawbone discovered within the Iowa River final month was decided to have doubtless belonged to a prehistoric man.

On August tenth at roughly 4:00 pm, deputies with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Workplace had been directed to a distant space within the Iowa river the place a attainable human decrease jawbone was found by Marshall County Conservation employees throughout a organic and wildlife survey.

Officers say that the jawbone was intact however deteriorated, indicating that it was a minimum of a number of years previous. Investigators carried out a extra thorough search of the realm and positioned three further potential human bones.

The suspected human stays had been despatched to the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Workplace for additional testing. Examiner’s decided that the mandible was human and that the remaining bones had been non-human.

The stays had been then transferred to the Workplace of the State Archaeologist and the College of Iowa for additional examination.  The mandible was decided prone to belong to a prehistoric Native American, center to older age male. 

Extra analysis is predicted to be performed on the jawbone.

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