Topic ID #13438 - posted 8/23/2011 3:51 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Archaeologists discover 8,000 year-old stone shelter in Colorado
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Archaeologists discover 8,000 year-old stone shelter
Updated: Aug 20, 2011 4:00 PM EDT
GRAND JUNCTION, CO (KKCO/NBC) - Archaeologists may have discovered evidence of people living in Colorado's Grand Valley 8,000 years ago.
During a recent dig, researchers with the Dominguez Anthropological Research Group (DARG) uncovered a prehistoric stone shelter.
Due to an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the land where the shelter was found, the group could not disclose its exact location, but says it was north of Grand Junction, CO, near the Bookcliffs.
After nearly two years of background work and two months of in-ground work, DARG researchers say they made quite the find.
Read more here.
Updated: Aug 20, 2011 4:00 PM EDT
GRAND JUNCTION, CO (KKCO/NBC) - Archaeologists may have discovered evidence of people living in Colorado's Grand Valley 8,000 years ago.
During a recent dig, researchers with the Dominguez Anthropological Research Group (DARG) uncovered a prehistoric stone shelter.
Due to an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the land where the shelter was found, the group could not disclose its exact location, but says it was north of Grand Junction, CO, near the Bookcliffs.
After nearly two years of background work and two months of in-ground work, DARG researchers say they made quite the find.
Read more here.
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