Bioarcheological Reports on Human Skeletal Remains from Iowa and Other Proveniences: Research Paper Vol. 47, no. 2, 2024

(2024) Bioarcheological Reports on Human Skeletal Remains from Iowa and Other Proveniences: Research Paper Vol. 47, no. 2, 2024. University of Iowa

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Abstract

In 2021 the OSA was contacted about human remains identified by a private citizen at her father in law’s residence. The remains had been stored in an attic and storage shed for an unknown period of time, sometime after June 24, 1970, as that was the date on the newspaper padding the remains. The human remains were transferred with the individuals in BP 3619 (UI OSA 2021a) who were known to originate from Peru. The provenience of the individuals reported here (BP3623) (UI OSA 2021b) is unknown; the only location data given was the daughter in law’s “ vague memory that the remains came from mounds that were going to be destroyed on a farm in Langwood, Iowa and when the farmer was asked to preserve the mounds, he refused unless he was compensated for the lost property”. When searching for Langwood the only result is a 4-H educational center in Wapello County, Iowa. Transferred with the remains were an assortment of six artifacts. It is unknown if these artifacts were excavated with the remains or from another location. The artifacts are typical of pre-contact Iowa.