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Posted on 06/27/2023 5:24:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A Joint Project Involving the Kalispel Tribe and Archaeologists From Washington State University (Wsu) Has Led to the Discovery of 5,000‑year‑old Earth Ovens Near Newport in Washington State, United States.
The ovens were found on land purchased by the Kalispel Tribe to accommodate for the construction of new housing near the tribal reservation.
A team of professional archaeologists and fourth-year students from WSU is currently working to delineate the features of the ovens and investigate any potential changes in their size and shape over time...
Radiocarbon dating of the ovens suggests that they are 5,000‑years‑old, with the oven contents being sent to WSU labs in the hope of finding organic remains that might indicate the diet and food processing techniques of tribal ancestors living on the banks of the Pend Oreille River.
One of the main food types the researchers hope to learn more about is camas, a small flowering plant with roots that can be cooked fresh or ground into flour for baking over several days. While the Kalispel Tribe has preserved the tradition of baking camas bread by passing it down from generation to generation, not much is known about the oven technology they used before 3,000 years ago.
Professor Shannon Tushingham from WSU said: "Earth ovens have been excavated in this area before, but now in 2023 we have all these wonderful new technologies that give us the ability to better determine what types of food were being eaten and how they were prepared."
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Were these Biden Administration approved? What is the impact on Climate Change? Do these ovens even have an Underwriters Laboratory seal? If not, how can wee know they are safe?
Were these Biden Administration approved? What is the impact on Climate Change? Do these ovens even have an Underwriters Laboratory seal? If not, how can wee know they are safe?
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None of that matters, since they are a Treaty Tribe and have separate and special rights other people living in the country do not have, nor are permitted to have.
I’ve been involved in construction that has come across old stuff in the ground.
Happiness is not a word I would use to describe the reaction. LOL.
I am pretty sure the tribal government would rather be building housing there.
The hieroglyphics on the earth ovens translated as “Artisan Earth Oven Baked Bread - $10 per loaf.”
So? We have found the same thing a few miles from here in NW Arkansas. I will be going by the dig in a few hours. It is being dug up, analyzed, examined, recorded. Then it will be destroyed because hwy 112 needs a round about at that spot. And yes, Hwy 112 is a very dangerous road.
It has happened before. On the La Plata Highway in Farmington NM, when widening that road a new Pueblo ruin was discovered recorded and then destroyed to widen the road.
So? It’s happened again.
Were they in compliance with emission standards?
So this tribe will be forbidden to do anything with this land?
Well, it is sacred to a tribe that was there before them.
Think about that!
They created a whole popular music genre with the early hit “Earth Oven”.
“Camas” is “beds” in Spanish-so I had to see what these plants are-it is a kind of lily with an edible root and a pretty stem of purple flowers-grows in the pacific NW in meadows-it is for sale as a landscape plant for that area...
Thanks!
Sort of a double-edged sword. If they weren’t building something new the old stuff never would have been found. Hopefully not too much of a delay in construction while still allowing for new information of the old stuff.
When the state of Washington was building a new floating bridge they did all sorts of historical research on where to build the floating pontoons and they picked a spot on tribal land and did preliminary diggings and determined that it should be free of artifacts. But once they started to build it was full of artifacts and it would have been too costly to use as a construction area so they had to find someplace else.
Rumor is that the indians knew that the area was full of artifacts and were hoping for the state to do all of the research for them and to pay the indians lots of money to do it.
Hoisted on their own petards though. You find anything Indian in a worksite, you’re screwed.
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