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MILWAUKEE, May 21 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin historian says the human remains found by a public works crew in Milwaukee may be those of an early settler or Native American.
John Richards, a professor of anthropology and director of historic resource management services at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said several rib fragments and pieces of a skull were found at the site where a trench was being dug, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.
Researchers with the Wisconsin Historical Society's burial preservation office are expected to investigate the site on Monday, the newspaper said.
Milwaukee historian John Gurda said Milwaukee's first Catholic cemetery was at that site from the early 1840s to 1857.
Gurda said a 1916 study of Native American sites in Milwaukee discovered a Potawatomi village also was at the site -- on W. Clybourn St. between N. 20th and N. 26th streets -- when the first white settlers arrived in the area in the 1830s, the newspaper said.
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