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In response to
"Included on the want-to-read list is this gem of a title: "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead""
by
Apple Baron Betty 🥧
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Heh, just yesterday I included this paragraph in a newsletter column I was writing.
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This project (LAN-4894) developed when landscape trenching activities disturbed a gravesite. The presenters were called in to rescue the skeletal remains, relocate them to a secure area, and excavate and record the burial feature. Sites such as this, like those in many other areas, have long been impacted by agriculture and development. In the past they were subject to disturbance and looting but the passage of statutes such as NAGPA has laid out a protocol for protection. Guidelines are in place as to whether a burial can be protected in situ, be reburied nearby, or relocated to a new location. The process in California is overseen by the Native American Heritage Commission which brings together archaeologists and MLDs (Most Likely Descendants) to facilitate the process.
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