Native American Artifacts Found At Construction Site
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Native American artifacts said to be almost 5,000 years old have been found at a Lake Fort Smith
construction site.
The artifacts found at the site include arrowheads and pottery.
The items will be taken to University of Arkansas researchers, who
will then catalogue them.
Ray Gosack, Fort Smith deputy administrator, says artifacts that
old are rare, since most items found in the area date from periods
after Europeans moved to the region in the 1800s.
Officials declined to provide specifics on where the artifacts
were found to reduce the possibility of looting.
Other artifacts from more recent periods have been discovered at
the lake expansion site, where construction started in 2002 and is
scheduled to be finished in 2006.
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