Wyoming archaeology booms with oil and gas exploration
Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 08 December 2006 Page Views: 1523
Pre-ContactCountry: United States The oil and gas boom of the West has also opened vast lands to discoveries by an unlikely group: archaeologists such as Kevin O'Dell. With crews spaced 100 feet apart, O'Dell and other archaeologists are walking thousands of acres of sagebrush highlands, valleys and hills, and they're achieving a remarkable increase in identification of prehistoric and historic sites.Because the Bush administration is pushing for more energy extraction on federal property, and because laws require cultural resource surveys before any such drilling, private archeologists are enjoying a boom of their own.
At one site, old postholes, charred seeds and burned bones of small mammals were deemed remnants of Native American dwellings during autumn gatherings from about 6260 B.C. to 2640 B.C. Bone fragments from a 7,290-year-old burial structure nearby are believed to belong to an old woman with severe arthritis, who was laid to rest with a funerary offering of cactus.
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