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Border patrol finds artifacts
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rockhopper Posts: 668
10/14/2012
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Some of you have probably seen this. Thought is was kinda neat. I know it is east in AZ but still way cool after all these years!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/arizona-border-patrol-agents-discover-ancient-artifacts-190745819.html
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2609
10/15/2012
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Pretty cool.....I had an agent tell me where some pictos were out in ABDSP once when I was out just wandering around exploring. He was out on patrol with a Camelbak and all.
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ziphius Posts: 911
10/15/2012
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Not sure what it means when they say The Forest Service "took charge" of the artifacts. But I'm assuming they were removed from their resting site. It's one reason I never report the locations of anything I find to ANY 'authorities'. The chain of history is forever broken when artifacts are removed from the wild, notwithstanding the usual arguments of "well, they have to be protected from those who might REMOVE them illegally." Same result. We have enough stuff in dusty drawers in locked rooms. 
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surfponto Administrator Posts: 1362
10/15/2012
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I am with you on that
ziphius wrote:
Not sure what it means when they say The Forest Service "took charge" of the artifacts. But I'm assuming they were removed from their resting site. It's one reason I never report the locations of anything I find to ANY 'authorities'. The chain of history is forever broken when artifacts are removed from the wild, notwithstanding the usual arguments of "well, they have to be protected from those who might REMOVE them illegally." Same result. We have enough stuff in dusty drawers in locked rooms.
edited by ziphius on 10/15/2012
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tommy750 Posts: 1040
10/15/2012
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Nice link. Had a USBP agent in my office last week who said a helo pilot found some geoglyphs in/near Davies Valley. He tried to vector a couple of agents on ATVs over to the area but they were unable to go. Said he could get me the coordinates. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any know geoglyphs out there? Tom
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ziphius Posts: 911
10/17/2012
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Tom,
I wonder if a careful Google Earth search would yield any results on the geoglyphs. I guess the place to start is with *known* geoglyphs, to see if the Google imagery is actually good enough to reveal them in the first place.
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tommy750 Posts: 1040
10/17/2012
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ziphius wrote:
Tom,
I wonder if a careful Google Earth search would yield any results on the geoglyphs. I guess the place to start is with *known* geoglyphs, to see if the Google imagery is actually good enough to reveal them in the first place.
Jim
Yeah, I tried looking around Davies Valley on Google Earth after I heard that from the agent and didn't see anything obvious. The Blythe Intaglios are very obvious from Google Earth but the Yuha geoglyphs a few miles away look like a washed out area. Need to call that agent back and see if he has more info. Thanks. Tom
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