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Anthropology

SWBTATTReg

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1. Amazing. And Vctor Segovia Pinto had the foresight to close up the site, perhaps to preserve...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 05:39 PM

Mar 2019

the artifacts until they could be recovered and restored properly? An act of farsightedness that one didn't see back then sometimes with discovered archeological finds. Perhaps being so pristine and not contaminated, we'll learn more from this one site that many others combined. What a magnificent find.

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