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TexasTowelie

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Tue Dec 29, 2020, 07:28 PM Dec 2020

Prehistoric human remains found in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

EMPIRE — Officials are communicating with Native American groups to help decide what to do next with prehistoric human remains found along a Lake Michigan shoreline in a northwestern Michigan park.

A visitor found the remains in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore three years ago, took them out of the park and then returned them a year later, Scott Tucker, the park’s superintendent, told MLive.com.

Examinations at a medical examiner’s office and further analysis of the bones at Western Michigan University helped identify them as prehistoric remains most likely tied to prehistoric Native American populations.

“Our goal is to respect the ancestral remains that were found, and let the tribes determine the next steps,” Tucker said.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/12/26/prehistoric-human-remains-found-lake-michigan-sleeping-bear-dunes/4047299001/

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Prehistoric human remains found in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2020 OP
I went to the link to see if the remains had been dated but no help there. So I decided to read the abqtommy Dec 2020 #1

abqtommy

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1. I went to the link to see if the remains had been dated but no help there. So I decided to read the
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 08:32 PM
Dec 2020

comments and there sure are a lot of miserable excuses for human beings around!

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