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\u00a0 \u00a0 I suspect that most of my readers live in the American West. \u00a0It\u2019s easy to imagine exciting archaeological discoveries in, for example, the exotic Middle East. \u00a0But the Western United States can provide interesting archaeological material, as well. \u00a0And, it seems, did\u00a0so in 2015: \u00a0 http:\/\/westerndigs.org\/top-5-archaeology-discoveries-in-the-american-west-in-2015\/ \u00a0 Posted from Richmond, Virginia (where there\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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