Anthropologist determines skull 8,000 years old

A partial skull that was discovered last summer by two kayakers in Minnesota will be returned to Upper Sioux Community officials after investigations determined it was about 8,000 years old. The skull was found in the drought-depleted Minnesota River. Thinking it might be related to a missing person case or murder, Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable turned it over to a medical examiner and eventually to the FBI, where a forensic anthropologist used carbon dating to determine it was likely the skull of a young man who lived between 5500 and 6000 B.C.