[Aztlan] 300 CE Weaver Culture Village unearthed in Iowa

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Archaeologists digging at a site in Oakville, Iowa have found a Weaver  
Culture village dating back to 300 CE. They have found fish, turtle  
and deer bones in their refuse piles and this village was one of many  
along the banks of rivers in this region at that time. The villagers  
in this area at that time were very well fed people.
After 8 weeks of digging, they have pulled up an astounding 100,000  
artifacts including pottery, arrowheads, spear points, stone axes. The  
site will be catalogued and then carefully covered over to protect it.  
Work on a levee to protect the farmland from flooding in the area has  
to be finished before spring and that work was halted for the  
archaeological work being done at the site.

The Quad City Times has the story here;
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2009/02/17/news/local/doc499b53c24de8d281802385.txt

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