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In order to preserve the past, archaeologists in Utah have decided to rebury a 1500-year-old Pueblo pit house in hopes that future technological advancements can shed more light on the ancient way of life of the Anasazi peoples.

Archaeologists Rebury an Ancient Pueblo Pit House

Early in 2015, a group of engineers in the middle of conducting surveys for a development project stumbled upon a Pueblo pit house in southern Utah. The plans came to a quick halt to allow archaeologists access to research the site for the time being.

Volunteer archaeologists and researchers worked on the excavation and studied the site closely. They documented the site through photography, meticulous notes, and digital mapping techniques in order to precisely record the finding.

After four months of studies, the team decided to rebury the ancient Pueblo pit house to allow future archaeologists with better, more advanced technology the chance to find out more information from the remnants of the Anasazi culture in the Dammeron Valley.

Pueblo Pit House Reveals Life 1,500 Years Ago

The researchers found that the house was 1,500 years old and had belonged to the Puebloans, an ancient civilization also referred to as the Anasazi peoples. Upon further investigation, the archaeologists discovered bone fragments and tools that indicated the group had links to corn farming.

The volunteer archaeologists who worked on the excavation appeared to gain quite a bit of knowledge from observing the pit house and the remains of ancient life within it. Though no advanced technologies were used, the Anasazi way of life had been easily glimpsed just by observing the archaeological site.

Greg Woodall, one of the volunteers, explained to local media outlets that the inhabitants of the pit house had most likely built the home by digging a rather large pit about 10 feet deep, placing a roof over it, and accessing it via ladder.

Before entombing the Washington County house again, the research team carefully layered protective fabric over the floors and walls. This step would act as a preventative measure to protect the excavated house from erosion and also to signal to future researchers where their studies had ended.

Preserving the Pueblo Artifact for Future Technology

Though many abandoned Anasazi sites may have been built long ago in Utah, many of them haven’t been discovered and won’t be, as land developers have demolished the ancient houses without knowing of their historical significance.

Luckily, for this particular home, the developer is adamant that he should protect the recent archaeological find. Brooks Pace, the future owner of the land, has agreed to preserve the site by selling the rights to the lot that contains the Puebloan pit house to the Archaeological Conservancy.

Local news reports say that the conservation group may also have plans to create a museum to explain to visitors the site’s significance in ancient Anasazi life.

Maybe burying the past isn’t a bad thing, especially considering that in the future, archaeologists may have the technological advances needed to reexamine the house, unlocking the mystery and the secrets to the Pueblo people and why they abandoned the house sometime around 1500 years ago.

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A telling #child #skeleton revealing more about the #BronzeAge - http://clapway.com/2015/07/26/4000-year-old-child-skeleton-in-fetal-position-uncovered-from-bronze-age-235/

Archaeologists from the University of Reading uncovered a 4,000-year-old child skeleton curled into a fetal position at Wilsford Henge near Stonehenge in the United Kingdom.

Bronze Age Child Skeleton Laid to Rest, Curled in Fetal Position

After only a month of excavations at Wilsford Henge, archaeologists from the University of Reading discovered a well-preserved human skeleton from the Bronze Age. The remains are intact and are believed to belong to an adolescent child or teenager who was living while Stonehenge was being built.

The child skeleton was small at around 1.5 meters in length and had been found in the fetal position. The archaeologists believe the skeleton had been positioned in that specific manner: head turned slightly to the right, knees drawn close to its chest and its arms crossed snugly.

What was more intriguing than the childlike position the skeleton had assumed was the amber necklace he or she had been wearing, preserved within the burial plot for thousands of years.

The Well-Preserved Skeleton Will Shed Light on Diet and Disease

The remains were found in the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire in between Stonehenge and Avebury. The archaeological and anthropological communities are extremely excited about what the skeleton can reveal to us.

Dr. Jim Leary, Director of the Archaeology Field School at the University of Reading, said the skeleton will undergo analysis to determine age, gender, date of burial. Leary believes additional testing can even point to the exact village where the child had spent its short life before dying.

With this single find, we will learn more about the diets, diseases, and lifestyle of our Neolithic ancestors who witnessed Stonehenge at its height.

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The archaeologists in the excavation studied under the direction of the University of Reading’s Department of Archaeology and came across the find through research in the Archaeology Field School.

The discovery was a part of a three-year dig focusing around the Vale of Pewsey, a historically important region near the prehistoric, iconic Stonehenge. Its aims are to fully understand the peoples who worshiped at Stonehenge and their lifestyles, both work and play.

Within the items unearthed, archaeologists have found necessary tools including flint arrowheads and blades. Perhaps the child skeleton may have been too young to use these, but decorative items have also been uncovered, such as shale and copper jewelry, a Roman brooch, and beautiful decorated pottery pieces, some of which the child may have been familiar.

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4,000-Year-Old Child Skeleton in Fetal Position Uncovered from Bronze Age