Word: sheguindah
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...glittering patch of quartzite, high on Sheguindah Bay Hill, was just the thing to catch an archaeologist's eye. Knowing that Stone-Age Americans made primitive tools from the easily workable material, Thomas Lee, a dedicated digger from Ottawa's National Museum, scrambled up the rocky slope on Lake Huron's Canadian shore to have a look. Half an hour later, he was poking and prodding one of the richest diggings in North America. The forest floor was dotted with crude knives, scrapers, and quartz chips. "I felt drunk," he said. "It looked as though the Indians...
...Indians who settled at Sheguindah, says Digger Lee, probably stayed for some 2,000 years; then, about 5,000 years ago, they pushed southeastward across Ontario. Rain and snow kept topsoil from forming on the sloping camp site, and many discarded artifacts lay on the ground last summer just as they had for 50 centuries. Archaeologist Lee gathered up every trace of man-chipped stone he could find before he went quietly away. This summer he returned with a group of students to dig deeper...
...estimates that there are 100,000 more relics buried at Sheguindah, and he is worried about them. In September he has to go back to work at the National Museum, and his helpers will go back to school. The location of his find is no longer a secret; American collectors are already nosing around the camp site. And Ontario, oddly, has no antiquities law to protect archaeological diggings from looters. "Practically every ancient trace of man found in Ontario has gone across the border," says the archaeologist sadly. "[U.S. dealers] take artifacts back, claiming them at the border as souvenirs...
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