We are in North Carolina shark tooth hunting for great whites and we checked
15 creeks in the past three days and haven't found anything and we're finally
on them this man's first shift had a flawless lower great white shark tooth
posterior - we're really excited to be here we're gonna explore this Creek more
because it looks like it's got a lot of potential and we're gonna find great
white shark teeth and broken Great White tooth just like that yes you got to be kidding me
Colton found his five minutes ago and I start sifting over here and that is
definitely a great white that is so awesome look at that thing
whoo I'm so happy I said I came out here for we've been scouting all day all
yesterday yes let's get some more of these
oh it's not bad just a little damage but that's still pretty tooth Great white shark
a couple million years old that's awesome get some more yeah we dug
a few more test holes here but didn't find anything else besides those nice
two great whites and Maddy found two blades so we're gonna leave our
equipment here and we're going to hike further down and scout this Creek both
ways and see if we can't find some more locations we're starting to see
fragments of shell mixed in with the gravel and that's a really good sign
because this might be where the actual formation is exposed and where those
fossils great white shark teeth eroded out of so we're gonna keep looking
and see if we can't find that formation hey cutie we didn't mean to scare you
we've seen lots of pretty turtles this trip we're gonna let you do you see you buddy
there we go that's the formation we want more of that with some gravel I just
found well it definitely looks like a human jaw so there it is
that is a human jaw no doubt about it all the teeth seem to be kind of gone
but that's disgusting and also kind of cool there's a cool bottle and then
there is a jaw
we are walking more and that looks like a human skull we haven't flipped it
around yet I don't know if we should or shouldn't but I feel like we should call
him out here we don't know what it is you should probably know what it is
before we they're not gonna be upset we're call law enforcement we'll make
sure that it actually is a skull and then if that is that's nuts so we do
want to be respectful here because if this is a skull no matter how cool it is
to us this was once a person and if it is they deserve to be either
investigative of why they're here or properly buried so I'm going to go ahead
and turn it over just to make sure and we'll know in just a second yep those
are the eye sockets that's a human skull that's kind of crazy I want to put it
back and right there wow that looks like it's been there for a long time I wonder
how old it is all right well we're gonna call local law enforcement and hopefully
get out here and be able to take it off of our hands because that deserves to be
dealt over by someone who knows what they're doing not us
hi my name's Jonathan Jonathan Valentine I'm a small youtuber who does
educational videos and adventure videos and creeks looking for artifacts and
fossils I'm in a local Creek and and we just found a human skull and human jaw
it looks pretty old but we're basically a hundred percent certain that's what it
is on the corner of and yes ma'am
Alright, I'll get an officer over there.
we have a lot of people that do we decided to do some exploring around and
And they kind of go everywhere
we stopped in this Creek today and went down that way found a little bit and we
came up here and then found that it was kind of like we should probably contact
somebody about that once they can run out
you're not gonna be able to see it so you get right up next to it it's about
10 feet past 10 I'm about to come back yeah
Its definitely a Skull
we've been wondering how old it might be it doesn't have any teeth so they can't
use the teeth to match dental records but it might have some DNA problem with that
is it's in water it's all that DNA is probably degraded or dissolved we don't
even know how old it is really
so we look at the mandible this is the first thing that we saw it's very very
small you can see normally with human mandibles that are more modern we have a
much thicker surface right here we can tell this smooth surface that means that
all the teeth have been gone and since it is so smooth we know that that
happened before this person died all of this right here was the bone repairing
itself so what we call this is antemortem tooth loss so all of this
appear this damage that you see is all just post-mortem trauma so that's wear
and tear from after the person died skeletonized especially since we just
found him in the creek they'd probably been tumbling for a while so the skull
is missing a lot of identifiable features one of the first things we do
to look at if we're trying to determine if something is historic or forensic
significance is the teeth you can tell there are no teeth here at all but based
on just how heavy the skull is this amount of damage and then also with this
tooth loss it does not appear to be forensically significant to us at all
then asked how old do we think it is honestly there's really no way to tell
how do we know that it's historical and not Native American or so one of the
ways that we look to see if it's native or not is mostly the dentition also you
have faced facial features that will indicate that again the facial features
are gone there's no dentition we do look at cranial shape you can look at that
eye orbits right here kind of look at the nose one thing about European
populations or Caucasians you tend to have a little bit more narrow of a nose
and just from what I can see it looks like this nose is going to be a little
bit more narrow but that's all I can tell about ancestry so a lot of the time
if we can't tell ancestry if we're not hundred percent sure if it's a Native
American or not a lot of the tribes aren't going to want to take possession
of it but it is a female we can tell that based on the brow Ridge men
typically have more pronounced brow ridges right here you can tell this is a
little bit flatter also connect here on this occipital protuberance it's a
muscle attachment area so men are naturally larger here you know if you
feel the back of your head you can feel a little bump, women it's gonna be small like that
men its gonna be much more pronounced occipital protuberance
got it, and the mastoid process is right here they set right behind your
ear yeah same thing men they're much larger more robust females they're a
little bit thinner like this so this is consistent with a female well thank you
so much Becky that's awesome we really appreciate Becky and the local
police officers that came out to help with this case as always if you guys
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