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Crews uncover mammoths and other Ice Age fossils while grading jobsite near San Diego
While grading the site of a new home development near San Diego, construction crews uncovered fossils paleontologists have dated all the way back to the Ice Age. According to a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune, the workers at the Carlsbad jobsite unearthed the bones of “ancient mammoths, horses, turtles and even a prehistoric bison—the second ever […]
September 23, 2015
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Construction crew uncovers Native American remains likely hundreds of years old in Colorado
During the installation of a drainage pipe at a new housing development in Colorado, a construction crew was forced to place a call to the local coroner after discovering a skull. According to KKTV News, archaeologist Thomas Carr examined the skull and excavated the site, located in Fountain, for several hours, eventually uncovering an entire […]
August 10, 2015
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Excavator operator strikes 400 live WWII grenades buried beneath jobsite
Though he wasn’t exactly sure of what he had struck at the time, an excavator operator in Austria likely needed a drink later on, once police informed him he’d made a potentially explosive discovery. According to a report from the Associated Press, the operator went to police after his excavator bucket struck metal on a jobsite […]
June 29, 2015
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Contractor discovers drywall signed by his father 50 years ago while demoing a bathroom
Just in time for Father’s Day comes a story out of Michigan where a contractor recently made unexpected contact with his father for the first time since he was a boy. According to a report from the Huron Daily Tribune, Jon Herzog, owner of Herzog Construction in the city of Bad Axe, was ripping out drywall in a […]
June 18, 2015
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Crew unearths remains likely belonging to a construction worker on North Dakota jobsite
A crew working in west-central North Dakota recently uncovered human remains police believe may belong to another construction worker. According to a report from The Dickinson Press, an excavation crew there discovered the body while working at a jobsite near an industrial park on the evening of May 21. The Dickinson Police Department told the […]
May 29, 2015
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Workers uncover ancient human remains, artifacts on Washington jobsite
While digging on a renovation job at an RV lot in Yakima, Washington, last week, a construction crew uncovered what could be some of the oldest Native American artifacts found in a region first inhabited by tribes of the Yakama Nation. According to a report from NBC Right Now, one of the workers had begun hand-digging with about […]
May 12, 2015
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Workers discover ancient tools, homestead during pipeline construction in Utah
While working on the construction of a Questar gas line in Utah, construction workers uncovered some materials that gave them pause. According to a report from FOX 13 TV, after finding soot-stained rock and charcoal debris, the workers called in the archaeologists who quickly confirmed that the crew had uncovered an ancient homestead. The station […]
May 6, 2015
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Construction crew finds body while excavating site near Detroit
A construction crew working a site in a rural Michigan town near Detroit discovered a body last week. According to a report from WDIV TV, the workers were doing excavation work at a site in Carleton being prepped for the construction of a home. The workers discovered the body in a wooded area near train […]
April 28, 2015
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Skull found on Louisville construction site sparks search for more remains
Work has slowed on a Louisville, Kentucky, jobsite where construction workers recently gained a bit more company as police and volunteers are combing the area after a skull was found on the jobsite early last week. According to a report from WHAS TV, workers excavating a site for a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood found the skull March […]
March 16, 2015
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Construction crew unearths grenade without a pin, worker picks it up for some reason
A jobsite supervisor in Arizona got quite the scare last week when one of the guys on his crew walked up to him holding what appeared to be a live grenade. According to a report from WSEE TV, a crew with Sonoran Desert Ridge Development was trenching the front yard of a home in Scottsdale when […]
December 18, 2014
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Construction crew uncovers human bones during gas line install in New York City
A construction crew in New York City made a pretty startling discovery last week when a routine trench dig uncovered human bones. According to the New York Daily News, the crew discovered the bones while digging a trench for a gas main in the borough of Queens on the morning of October 7. Work was […]
October 14, 2014
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Construction worker finds hidden message from grandfather he never met on Ohio hospital jobsite
A current runs through the Schneider family blood. The past three generations of the Zanesville, Ohio family has included at least one electrician, the latest being 24-year-old Hugo Schneider. In addition to having the same profession as his grandfather, Schneider was also named after him and even lives in his former home. Unfortunately, he was […]
October 6, 2014
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