It’s been nearly two years since ancient human remains were found outside a Withrow Avenue home, but City of Toronto officials and archeological experts now say they believe they have found evidence of five people buried.

“There’s teeth, there’s different parts of the skeleton that makes determination on age, sex and you can tell if you have multiples of the same piece you know you have different individuals,” Lisa Merritt, an archeologist and the vice-president of ASI Heritage — a consultancy hired by the City of Toronto to assist with the investigation, told CityNews on Tuesday.

“I think we always assumed there would be multiple individuals. It’s likely a communal grave, a communal burial, that would be the tradition to have multiple individuals buried together.”

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