Archaeologists unearth buried ‘treasures’


	Archaeologists unearth buried ‘treasures’

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/65dc337f-f689-4fc1-957c-34292bd08cdc/65BE94FB-0B04-4ECB-BB47-58669845132D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/articles/2008/07/11/news/news01.txt" href="http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/articles/2008/07/11/news/news01.txt" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thewetumpkaherald.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/articles/2008/07/11/news/news01.txt"><H2 class="headline">Archaeologists unearth buried ‘treasures’</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/articles/2008/07/11/news/news01.txt"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thewetumpkaherald.com/img/A8069999-F525-4174-B8DD-942F8C003FE7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/articles/2008/07/11/news/news01.txt"><DIV>University of South Alabama archaeologist Tara Potts water-screens dirt excavated from land near Old Wetumpka Highway in Wetumpka. Herald Photo/Cory Diaz</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/articles/2008/07/11/news/news01.txt"><DIV>Insight into the lives of ancestral Creek Indians, and maybe some evidence of nomadic tribes before the Creeks, are being unearthed in Wetumpka.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/articles/2008/07/11/news/news01.txt"><DIV>The Alabama Department of Transportation started working in August 2007 to create a new road near where the Old Wetumpka Highway is currently located. But progress was halted last month, when “human skeletal remains” were discovered. The  University of South Alabama in Mobile outbid other contenders to undertake an archaeological survey of the site.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/articles/2008/07/11/news/news01.txt"><DIV>Five archaeologists from USA’s Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work are now on location, scouring the land for any significant historical artifacts. Tara Potts, leader of the dig, said they are checking for environmental and cultural impacts at the location of the new road.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/65BE94FB-0B04-4ECB-BB47-58669845132D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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