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Student finds ancient Indian artifact on UW campus

Associated Press

Posted on December 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM

SEATTLE (AP) — A University of Washington student recently made a surprising archaeological find on the Seattle campus. While doing some landscaping work near the botany greenhouse, the freshman dug up an ancient Indian artifact.

Ellen Van Wyk found a tan and red projectile point buried in the ground next to a chain link fence. After she found the artifact, archaeologists from the Burke Museum dug three test pits nearby and uncovered two more stone tool fragments.

The artifact found by Van Wyk is estimated to be between 4,000 and 6,700 years old. UW archaeologists says it is a significant and unusual find in the middle of the city.

But long before the UW was built, Native American people lived there for thousands of years.

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whatnext said on December 9, 2009 at 5:17 AM

I was doing some landscape work last year and found where a native american had dropped an axe in my yard. You could be standing in the middle of it and you wouldn't even know.

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sparkz said on December 8, 2009 at 3:44 PM

"But long before the UW was built, Native American people lived there for thousands of years." Now THAT'S sugar coating it a little... Kinda skips over the part about them living all over what is now the United States and then the whole manifest destiny debacle... If someone felt compelled to include that in the story believing that the readers would need that explained, then all of you need to go back to school.

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