Texas Drought Turns Weekend Warriors Into Looters of Artifacts, Fossils

www.thepostgame ^ | Friday, September 30, 2011 8:15 am | Ben Maller

[BenLurkin]

When the weather is right, Lake Whitney State Park in Texas is a wonderful place for outdoor weekend athletes to get their fix. From boating, fishing, scuba diving and water skiing, the lake offers it all.

But with Texas locked in a record setting drought, the sinking water levels have turned the lake into something Indiana Jones would love. Texans have recently uncovered 8,000-year-old secrets, reports WFAA Dallas.

Both fossils and Native American tools have turned up at Lake Whitney. You have to go back at least 20 years since anyone has seen the formerly remote underwater caverns that have been exposed by the historic drought. For some visitors it has been exciting and new. But for others it has been a lesson in criminal law.

It's against Texas and federal regulations to remove Native American artifacts from archaeological sites. But WFAA reports burial sites from ancient times have been disturbed.

The 955-acre park is located near the ruins of Towash Village, an early Texas settlement named for the chief of Hainai Indians, who moved into the region in 1934.

So far, law enforcement has arrested 30 people for committing the crimes against history. Each was fined thousands of dollars and placed on probation.

[goat granny]

What if the tools found were from ancient vikings? Who owns them, I say the finder always....If you know nothing about it, it cannot be yours....finders keepers, losers weepers....(from my childhood) GG

If your ancestors didn't tell you where such finds were, they aren't yours or your ancestors....

If they are from indian artifacts, which tribe, as many tribes have wanders the country....again, belongs to the finder.....Others should have no claim on them....

[Arrowhead1952]

I may have to “surface hunt” at the parks this weekend!

[SunkenCiv]

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[SuzyQue]

You might ought to read this one.

[afraidfortherepublic]

There were these porcine couples literally shovelling refuse into the back of their station wagons and driving off.

Would it have been OK if they were lean and muscular? What if one were fit and the other were pudgy?

[Condor51]

So far, law enforcement has arrested 30 people for committing the crimes against history.

'Crimes Against History'? Oh really?

Then I suggest the Gubmint start rounding up the minimum of the 4,084₍₁₎ History Professors in the USA. As every one of the commie bast**ds commits a crime by distorting 'History'.

(1) Per searching 'Google Answers', there are 4,084 colleges & universities in the USA. Giving each 'college' one prof would be 4,084 (natch there are more than One Prof per school)

[El Sordo]

We see this happen along the Columbia and Snake Rivers during unusually low water levels.

Archaeological sites get looted and the history is lost.

[Lady Jag]

Good fortune this weekend!

[Lady Jag]

Laws make criminals out of honest men.

[Sawdring]

Without the archaeological record, it is harder to piece together pre-history.