Canadian couple find 400-year-old female skeleton in their back yard [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Canadian couple find 400-year-old female skeleton in their back yard

SARNIA, Ontario, June 16 (UPI) -- A Canadian couple who found a skeleton in their back yard said an Ontario law required them to pay $5,000 for archaeological disinterment and other treatments.

Nicole Sauve and Ken Campbell of Sarnia, Ontario, found the 400-year-old bones of a First Nations woman when they started digging to build a fence, and contacted the Ontario Provincial Police, who taped off their back yard and called in an anthropological expert, the Toronto Star reported Saturday.

Forensic anthropologist Michael Spence said the aboriginal woman was about 24 years old when she died and was part of a hunting, gathering and fishing and merchant society.

Property owners must pay for the costs of archaeological assessment for human remains found on their property, the Star reported.

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