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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A human skeleton found by three kids in Salt Lake City's Harvard/Yale neighborhood appears to be American Indian.
Clayton Middle School students, Scott Paulsen, Alex Baker and Hayden Schofield were digging a fort when their shovels struck a bone.
Paulsen said they thought it was just an animal and kept digging.
The boys, all age 14, uncovered a portion of a rib cage and what appeared to be the back of a skull.
Schofield told his grandfather about their discovery who then called police.
Salt Lake City police Lieutenant Cray Croft say the remains were in a hole about four-feet deep and said they had been there for a long time.
The Utah Medical Examiner's office told the boys based on the shape and size of the skull the skeleton was American Indian.
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