Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies responded Tuesday to a report of human bones found at an excavation site in Lake Township.

Deputies were called around 3:58 p.m. to the area of 16000 and 17000 South Star Lake Drive near Big Star Lake. After declaring the site a possible crime scene, authorities closed the road after 6 p.m. It reopened Wednesday morning.

An anthropologist and representatives from the medical examiner’s office examined the remains and determined they are ancestral. The remains are now in the custody of the medical examiner’s office.

More details will be released as they become available.