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Archaeologists have discovered a tomb more than a thousand years old in Panama containing human remains alongside gold and ceramic artifacts, the lead researcher told AFP on Friday.
The discovery was made at the El Cano site in the Nata district about 200 kilometers (124 miles) southwest of Panama City...
The skeletal remains were found surrounded by gold objects and pottery decorated with traditional motifs, pointing to these being "high-ranking" individuals... the tomb was built between 800 and 1000 AD.
"The individual with the gold was the one with the highest social status in the group," she said.
That body was found with two bracelets, two earrings, and pectoral jewelry that featured bats and crocodiles, she added...
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Tomb more than 1,000 years old found in Panama
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.... the excavation of the ground under Alta Ski Area pretty mundane, especially by archeological standards.
The resort was installing snowmaking pipes along a flat stretch between its Albion and Wildcat bases. Now home to the Transfer Tow, it was known as Water Street during the Town of Alta‘s mining heyday. In the first day and a half of digging last summer, Moore saw mostly dirt.
Then the bones emerged. And bottles. Boot soles and shards of fine china and ink wells. And bullets – lots of bullets.
“At the end of that second day,” he said, “we started pulling out hundreds and hundreds of artifacts.”...
Here is that link.
Alta Ski Area dug a snowmaking trench. Inside were a million clues to the past.
Another example of a construction site turning up artifacts. I always liked to check areas where the earth has already been disturbed.
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Copilot has some disturbing biases and gets too much wrong. Grok seems more reliable.
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My wife calls the Oak Island show the "Could it be? Is it possible?" program. For me, it is a comedy.
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Not much going on there. Just a small east surf.
The surf chart doesn't look very exciting for the coming week.
We have been having some modest negative low tides.
Good hunting,
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