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6. A beaker was found in an adjoining carin in the 1930's...
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 11:29 AM
Jul 2017

even though the site isn't in prime identified 'Beaker' country.

It's really a bummer that tons of the ancient mounds were rifled through by ham-fisted do-gooders in the eighteenth century in the name of 'Science', and the middens (the paydirt) were mostly discarded. In some cases, the rocks were fed to the kilns to make lime!

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