Native American artifacts thousands of years old halt sewer installation

[tincan]

WARWICK — The discovery of Native American artifacts dating back thousands of years –– plus the likelihood that there are many more beneath the streets of neighborhoods off Tidewater Drive –– have stalled an effort to bring sewers to the coastal area.

Archaeologists retained by the Warwick Sewer Authority have been unearthing a variety of artifacts in test trenches for more than three years and recently issued a report stating that the Mill Cove area was probably home to generations of Native Americans, with artifacts from about 3,000 years ago through the 1600s.

http://www.projo.com/ri/warwick/content/warwick_artifacts_sewer_24_11-24-09_MEGIHJD_v11.3b4547f.html

[ncboman]

A backhoe was doin some digging in a nearby town and I asked the guy if he ever found arrowheads?

He looked at me kinda funny and said, 'No, don't look for em and don't see em.'

I figure a lot of diggers are like that.

[GF.]

Damn shame to think what's being lost to 'progress'...

There was an operator up in South Dakota who bumped into something that he could see wasn't rock, so he stopped. They got somebody looking at it and this is what they had:

http://www.mammothsite.com/default.htm

They say it's the world's largest woolly mammoth research facility. And it put a whole town on the map with a pretty solid base for their economy.

'Progress' indeed....:rolleyes:

[ncboman]

cool link.

I often ponder the mindset that took em down with spears. ... and what kind of weather/climate they lived in.

Pretty clear to see where major Indian concentrations were along any river system on the continent. All you gotta look at are the modern cities and towns.

There was a very large population of Indians here in NC at one time. Even as late as the early 1900s, surface artifacts were described as 'laying literally everywhere' in many areas of the piedmont. I wonder what the shad/herring/rock runs looked like in those days. :D

[ncboman]

I have a bucket of chips and scraps from my ongoing knapping adventures and know a riverside field that is constantly walked by those seeking artifacts. :rolleyes:

Should I 'seed' it? :D

[Bill Gunn]

Native American artifacts thousands of years old halt sewer installation

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[Bushman]

I've some down on the local native americans that I just evicted yesterday. I hate to say that they have confirmed their stereotype, but suffice is to say that I know what I'm going to be doing for the next month. They had to move, tepee full of sh*t. Artifacts, right.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

We found a couple of mammoth skeletons in a creek bed in Duval County. A friend of mine who was, at that time, curator of the Corpus Christi Museum came out and looked at them and was unimpressed. Evidently they are not that uncommon. Now, he did say that if we found one that had met it's demise at the hands of man he would be Very Interested. They are really cool anyway. I was looking at a big rock that had a funny shape while I was standing on another big rock. I realized that I was looking at the bottom of a huge bottom jaw and the rock I was standing on was the shoulder blade. There were Bison, horse, mammoth and lots of other animals in that creek bed. He said they had come there looking for water and had died in a drying period.

Alan

[ncboman]

might have been blue tongue.

[ncboman]

btw, Duval county is one of the most impressive places I've ever been, ... but I'm a whitetail hunter thru and thru.

I've never walked the ground there but from the road between 3 rivers and Alice, ... I've seen all I ever want to see. <looney smiley>