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Old 10-28-2005, 11:56 AM  
Greg B
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Originally Posted by Enderprise
The article seemed a bit short, more details!
It's a new discovery so it'll have to wait for the scientific papers to be published. Usually via the colleges the scientists attend or National Geographic or the archaeology sites and papers. It's going to take decades to excavate these finds. Archaeology is a very, labor intensive and meticulous science. each quarter inch to half inch of soil has to be slowly sifted and all artifacts from teeth to hairpins have to be catalogued at their respective depths. A real pain in the ass as the artifacts have to be drawn by hand by the researcher. That part I hated. You can spend a lifetime at just one acre sized sight digging and cataloguing and hoping your funding doesn't run out.
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