COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Officials said human bones, likely hundreds of years old, were found at a Columbia home under renovation earlier this month.
The Richland County Coroner’s Office said the bones, along with animal bones, were discovered at a home on Kilbourne Road on March 12. Coroner Naida Rutherford said Monday that a DNA test determined the human bones “have no forensic value and are likely historical in nature.”
“Our investigation indicates the recovered bones are probably of archaeological origins and were collected in another country,” said William Stevens, a forensic anthropologist who assisted in the investigation along with fellow forensic anthropologist Madeline Atwell…