Remains found in western Wis. construction project

ONALASKA, Wis. (AP) — Archaeologists are finding ancient remains that might be of Native Americans beneath the reconstruction of Highway 35.

Scientists from the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center have found almost two dozen likely skeletal fragments. They’ve also found hundreds of food and garbage pits, cooking hearths, tools and other artifacts of the Oneota people who inhabited the Onalaska area between about 1300 and 1600 A.D.