New discovery at Chaco
Ancient pit house find stalls sewer work

Park archaeologist Roger Moore points out some of the excavated area of a recently discovered pit house at Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Tuesday. Moore believes the uncovered area dates to around 500 B.C.. Carbon dating from corn recovered in the fire pit will confirm the actual age of the discovery. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Adron Gardner

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Helen Davis
Cibola County Bureau

CHACO CANYON NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — New discoveries have a knack for coming about in unusual ways, as archaeologists at Chaco Canyon National Historical Park found out this summer.

It is not very romantic, but archaeologists monitoring work in progress on a sewer upgrade stopped work when signs of ancient human activity showed up at the proposed site of a lift station.

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