[_ Old Earth _] vero man

[jasoncran]

http://insidevero.com/2014/01/06/work-begins-at-vero-man-site/

 

[Barbarian]

The remarkable thing about archaeology in the Americas, is that the 20th century investigations revealed that man has been here a lot longer than had been previously imagined.

 

[jasoncran]

The remarkable thing about archaeology in the Americas, is that the 20th century investigations revealed that man has been here a lot longer than had been previously imagined.

the dig site is under lock and key, a cop is on site 24/7.

 

[Milk-Drops]

the dig site is under lock and key, a cop is on site 24/7.

probably to protect the excavation.

 

[Claudya]

What are they expecting/ hoping to find?

 

[jasoncran]

any early man, other fossils. its oddly near a canal that was dug out and that is how they found the man the call the vero man. they found years after that at the same location a carving on a tusk showing man killing a mastodon.

 

[jasoncran]

http://insidevero.com/2014/01/12/the-hunt-for-veros-first-residents/#more-16126

 

[AirDancer]

At many of the dig sites around the world, security has had to be provided and/or strengthened to prevent 'looting' of the site. Much of the time, the damage done is minimal; other times, serious damage has been done. Hence the extra precautions taken.

Please keep us updated on the site's progression, jasoncran !

 

[Barbarian]

The big issue is that it's important to note precisely where and how deep the object was found. Messing around with the site can destroy a huge amount of important information.

 

[AirDancer]

That's so true. In the mid 80s, one of the dig sites in southern Illinois that the Midwestern Archaeological Research Center was working had to take on security. One area of the dig had been seriously damaged, which made the any artifacts in that spot to be of questionable dating and therefore of no use to the data being compiled. The site had multiply use layers that bespoke several hundreds of years' worth of occupation.

 

[jasoncran]

The big issue is that it's important to note precisely where and how deep the object was found. Messing around with the site can destroy a huge amount of important information.

good luck with that the article mentions a canal, that canal isn't going to be moved or dug up. the site is next to that relief canal.

 

[jasoncran]

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2014/jan/29/researchers-combing-vero-man-site-in-vero-beach/