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Destroying Indigenous history: An ancient American Indian burial ground and village dating back 4,500 years was found in Californias Marin County and quietly destroyed to make way for a multimillion-dollar housing development, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Archaeologists say that a 300-foot-long site in Larkspur contained Coast Miwok life from before the time of King Tuts tomb, including 600 human burials, tools, musical instruments and harpoon tips along with bones of bears and a ceremonial California condor burial. Not a single artifact was saved. This was a site of considerable archaeological value, said Dwight Simons, a consulting archaeologist. My estimate of bones and fragments in the entire site was easily over a million, and probably more than that. It was staggering. All of the items were reburied in an undisclosed location at the site north of San Francisco and apparently graded over. usatoday/story/news/nation/2014/04/24/american-indian-artifacts-paved-over-california/8086609/
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:16:41 +0000

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