Find a skeleton in your yard? Pay 5000 dollars

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Canadian couple finds 400 year old skeleton, in their backyard, now they are responsible for hiring an archaeologist to survey the rest of their backyard.</p>


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Seriously, I think most people after hearing this will just leave the past buried.</p>

 

[MassHavoc]

Being in Canada I know there are a lot of Tribal politics that can go on, at least out west, I don't about Ontario. I don't know a whole lot about about, but could this have anything to do with it? TCD May know? It could be any body, but I was just curious. I believe the article said 4-500 year old aboriginal.. Their may be some laws that they aren't allowed to touch it.. don't know. But 5k is a bit outrageous, especially to the owner.</p>

 

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Being in Canada I know there are a lot of Tribal politics that can go on, at least out west, I don't about Ontario. I don't know a whole lot about about, but could this have anything to do with it? TCD May know? It could be any body, but I was just curious. I believe the article said 4-500 year old aboriginal.. Their may be some laws that they aren't allowed to touch it.. don't know. But 5k is a bit outrageous, especially to the owner.</p>
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I think whether it is an aboriginal is irrelevant, just that its "old".</p>

 

[the canadian dream]

Ontario property law. I have no idea about it. Ask Rex.</p>


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Sounds really screwed up though that they would be dinged with the bill for digging up the skeleton when I am sure by law when human remains are found that the authorities need to be contacted and the remains examined etc etc. Me thinks that one will probably be end up being paid by the government and not the property owners. Sounds like an old law that was never amended to me.</p>


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But shit..if they get to keep the skeleton then get it appraised it may be well worth more than 5 thousand dollars to a museum or an anthropology department or better yet  private collectors. This is when the aboriginal community would probably come into play however and claim ownership of the skeleton? Anthropologists would need to take the skeleton however and try and indicate what aboriginal group she belonged to etc etc. That could take a while. </p>


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Kind of interested in this skeleton getting into the hands of anthropologists just so they could try to attach a story to this woman. I kind of like that stuff. Who knows might be other things found in the dig that could explain a bit more. Many aboriginal groups of the ontario region would have buried the body with other totems and objects etc. Depending on the groups of course and depending on the status of this women. Who knows may not have even been an organized burial. For nerds like me it's interesting. All these questions that only anthropology can come close to answering.</p>


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Besides for all we know the story could be a hoax and a distraction away from what the remains really are... Jimmy Hoffa or Jonathan Toews the goal scorer.</p>