Police in Council Bluffs said this (Thursday) afternoon, that at 11-a.m. (today), officers were called to the area of South 19th Street and Veteran’s Memorial Highway, with
regard to construction workers having uncovered human bones while moving dirt. Council Bluffs police officers and crime scene investigators, working in cooperation with the Pottawattamie County and State of Iowa Medical Examiner’s Offices, were able to determine that these bones were “ancient remains”, meaning that they are at least 100 years old.

Plans are in place to turn the bones over to the Office of the State Archaeologist, located at the University of Iowa, for further examination. There is no active criminal investigation taking place at this time.