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7,000-year-old bones uncovered at construction site in startling find

The skeleton belongs to the Linear Pottery culture, an early farming people of central Europe, and the school's construction dig turned up Leipzig's oldest known grave.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Gloria Vance on The Weekend Shift
Published 10:15 AM ET, Saturday, October 17, 2026

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First reported by Fox News: “7,000-year-old bones uncovered at construction site in startling find”.
Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 10:15 AM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Kenji Moonfield and Gloria Vance.

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Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA school construction crew in Leipzig, Germany, dug up a skeleton about seven thousand years old, and the city says it is the oldest grave ever found there.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorArchaeologists link the remains to the Linear Pottery culture, among the first farming communities in central Europe, so the find reaches well beyond one schoolyard.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSeven thousand years. The school was just trying to add a gym.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have stood at digs from Anatolia to the Nile, and the crew always finds the bones the morning the budget runs out.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWait, you were at those digs in person? I just watch the drone footage.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn person, Kenji. With a trowel and a very bad hat.

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