Apr 29 2007
Wal-Mart is a Disturbance for Everyone
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A rare find was discovered at the construction site of an upcoming Wal-Mart in Phoenix, Arizona. While digging a hole to plant a tree on the site workers discovered the remains of an 8,000 year old camel. A rare and impressive find to be sure.
PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) — Workers digging at the site of a future Wal-Mart store in suburban Mesa have unearthed the bones of a prehistoric camel that’s estimated to be about 10,000 years old.
Arizona State University geology museum curator Brad Archer hurried out to the site Friday when he got the news that the owner of a nursery was carefully excavating bones found at the bottom of a hole being dug for a new ornamental citrus tree.
“There’s no question that this is a camel; these creatures walked the land here until about 8,000 years ago, when the same event that wiped out a great deal of mammal life took place,” Archer told The Arizona Republic.
Wal-Mart officials and Greenfield Citrus Nursery owner John Babiarz have already agreed that the bones will go directly on display at ASU.
Archer said some of them may be placed on display very soon, but most will take several months “to get sorted out and stabilized.”
“In my 15 years at ASU doing this work I can think of six or seven times when finds this important have been made,” Archer said. “This is the first camel. Others have been horses, once a mammoth on Happy Valley Road. This sort of thing is extremely rare.” (source)
Am I the only one who wonders if Wal-Mart will allow the archaeologists to work peacefully? Someone I can’t help but pressure being placed to speed things up, no matter that the site itself holds the most information from which we can use to learn from.
Amazingly enough yesterday marked an eventful time for both of the Wal-Mart Supercenters in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Las Cruces PD were forced to evacuate both locations when a bomb threat was called in.
