The Onion totally gets contemporary archaeology!
Remains Of Ancient Race Of Job Creators Found In Rust Belt
WASHINGTON—A team of leading archaeologists announced Monday they had uncovered the remains of an ancient job-creating race that, at the peak of its civilization, may have provided occupations for hundreds of thousands of humans in the American Northeast and Midwest.
According to researchers, these long- forgotten people once flourished between western New York state and Illinois, erecting highly distinctive steel and brick structures wherever they went, including many buildings thought to have held hundreds of paid workers at a time.
Full story at
http://www.theonion.com/articles/remains-of-ancient-race-of-job-creators-found-in-r,26490/
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Dr Alice Gorman
Department of Archaeology
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001
Mobile: 0428 450 418
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/alice.gorman
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