Saura Native American Indian Tribal Village Discovered in Martinsville, Virginia

This is a facebook story. Last July, 2009, a childhood friend of mine from 40+ years ago and I reconnected via facebook. At some point my friend suggested that I "friend" his cousin who is a real estate agent in Northern Virginia. I did - later the agent suggested that if I wasn't busy ( 23% unemployment here and not much real estate moving) that he and his sister co-owned a piece of worthless bottom land and could or would I try to see if there would be any interest. What he didn't know that I knew was that the land had a Native American village and burial ground on it and that I had witnessed my best friend's father do an emergency archaeological retrieval in the 1960's when there was a threat of residential development. Today, after one year, the owners are donating the land to The Archaeological Conservancy and the site will be preserved.




http://www.americanarchaeology.com/aawelcome.html

Had it not been for facebook, this site eventually would have been lost forever. Now it is hoped that this Saura site, approximately 8 - 10,000 years old, may provide clues or links to the rich history of mankind that is still unfolding throughout our earth. Today I filmed the most personally meaningful land transfer in a 25 year career and was able, for a minute, to time travel back to my high school years and just... remember.

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Education

Tags:

• Nature
• Native Americans
• tribal village
• Research
• archaeology
• preservation
• Virgininia