A husband and wife team of amateur archaeologists have unearthed human skeletons, believed to be about 250 years old, at a burial site here on the Hudson River island that's considered the birthplace of today's U.S. Army Rangers.
Richard and JoAnne Fuller said it's very likely the remains found on private property date back to the French and Indian War, when Rogers' Rangers earned a place in American military lore while operating out of Fort Edward. The couple said the skeletons appear to be buried in an unmarked cemetery that doesn't appear on any colonial or contemporary maps. No other cemeteries are known to have existed on the island over the past 200 years.
Archaeologists are racing earthmovers
Jim Donohue is trying to solve a mystery that has been building for about 12,000 years, but he has only a few days left to gather clues. Donohue, senior archaeologist with the state Archaeological Research Center in Rapid City, is supervising the excavation of a site occupied by generations of ancient hunters off S.D. Highway 79 near Buffalo Gap.
He and his crew have found artifacts, bison bones and two ancient spear points, including a rare Folsom spear point found in late May.
The new Heartland Expressway will be built over the site where ancient hunters made spear points, and other people, probably women, processed meat, scraped hides and boiled the marrow out of bones from now-extinct giant bison and other animals.
They mention this in the article, but it seems to be a very significant site. That early and apparently a base camp.