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It's a welcome opportunity for Mark Rees, a professor of archaeology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and director of the Louisiana Public Archaeology Lab. Still, Rees laments that the work is hampered by people who have made unauthorized digs and made off with material from the site.

VERNON PARISH, La. — Long buried under the woods of west central Louisiana, stone tools, spearpoints and other evidence of people living in the area as long as 12,000 years

VERNON PARISH, La. — Long buried under the woods of west central Louisiana, stone tools, spearpoints and other evidence of people living in the area as long as 12,000 years

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VERNON PARISH, La. (AP) — Long buried under the woods of west central Louisiana, stone tools, spearpoints and other evidence of people living in the area as long as 12,000 years ago have become more exposed and vulnerable, due to hurricanes, flooding and looters. This summer, archaeologists have been gingerly digging up the ground at […]

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Long buried under the woods of west central Louisiana, stone tools, spearpoints and other evidence of people living in the area as long as 12,000 years ago have become more exposed and vulnerable, due to hurricanes, flooding and looters. This summer, archaeologists have been gingerly digging up the ground at the Vernon Parish site in the Kisatchie National Forest. They have been sifting through dirt to unearth and preserve the evidence of prehistoric occupation of the area.

Artifacts of a prehistoric site in Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana, have been recovered by archaeologists to prevent looters and natural disasters from further damaging the items.

“We're really writing the history of these peoples that lived prior to 1492, all the way back 10,000-plus years,” said Forest Service archaeologist Matthew Helmer.

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