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Along these lines, there is now a major protohistoric Rio Grande Glaze A
Pueblo midden in Ely, Nevada about 650 miles WNW of where it was located
in 1977 or so. One of our local residents at the time apparently had to
transport a dump truck from the Albuquerque area to Ely and figured it
was wasteful to drive it empty. Thinking there might be a market in
pueblo artifacts, he loaded the dump truck with material from a pueblo
site that was being used as fill material (probably north of
Albuquerque), drove it to Ely and dumped it in his back yard. There
wasn't much of a market for the material, but there is now a puebloan
site in Ely. Someday it will probably be evidence of the Ancestral
Pueblo incursion into Ely and the basis for establishment of aboriginal
Pueblo title to the City of Ely.
Mark Henderson
Ely, Nevada
Ron May wrote:
> Of course, there is no reason why we should not expect 17th to 20th century
> travelers would not have collected curios and lost them at later sites. After
> all, we have plenty of evidence of protohistoric Native Americans reusing
> Paleo-Indian tools. Why not a Viking or Celtic artifact dumped at a 18th
> century estate?
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
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