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Editorial
Digging up the area's past
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Recreationalists and irrigators have missed out on benefits from water in Hugh Butler Lake, but the problems with Red Willow Dam have resulted in a better view of the area's past.
Archaeologists from the University of Nebraska recently finished a summer session working at a site uncovered by the lake draw-down, showing that roaming hunter-gatherers stopped in the area sometime between 200 B.C. and 1200 A.D.
They have found signs of fire pits, along with bison bone, prehistoric stone tools and chipping debris, probably used for roasting plants or processing bone grease from the bison, according to one of the researchers.
They plan to continue the archeological survey over the next four years, according to NET News.
You can read the story and listen to the interviews at KVNO's website, http://www.kvnonews.com/2011/08/archaeology-dig-seeks-clues-to-nebraskas-prehist...