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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (45711)	2/26/2006 10:52:11 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

While I was in Juneau, somebody found the remains of a spruce root basket in the Mendenhall River. It was about 10,000 years old, way older than Troy. Another common finding was weir posts, where early inhabitants placed posts across narrows in order to trap salmon. Totems, of course, were once common. I think the original surviving totems are all in museums, but there are many newer ones. I was responsible for a project in Alaska where we tallied vegetation in samples that were spaced three miles apart in a grid. If you're familiar with SE Alaska, which is tiny compared to the rest of Alaska, it's still about 20 million acres. We had about 4000 of these samples, and one of the things we did was dig a small hole in the ground in order to describe the soil. I had to have an archeologist review the plan for those 4000 points, and all our crews were trained to recognize archeologically significant elements that they might dig up in that tiny hole. The most likely was a shell bed, where early natives shucked clams. We never encountered a single artifact. The sample was designed for vegetation, not arch features, so it was no surprise. Archeology has been a lifelong interest for me. Exclusively from reading -- I've never been on a dig. I've worked with archeologists on projects, and valued their input.