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Tuesday, September 28
September 28, 2010

An antiquities dealer in Colorado is expected to settle charges against him for digging up graves and looting federal lands. He was busted with 25 others last year in a federal sting operation.  A Utah man snagged in the same federal artifacts sting claims he can’t be prosecuted because the ancient jewelry in his possession came […]

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Monday, September 27
September 27, 2010

Morris Sutton, once a factory manager, quit his job to become an archaeologist. Now he lives in South Africa and digs at Swartkrans in the Sterkfontein Valley. “There’s a huge attraction that you are picking up something like a stone tool that maybe some hominid dropped a million years ago,” he explained. You can read […]

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