The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 7

Thunday Octobf 9 1986 7A THE WICHITA EAGLE-BEACON Indian Site Dig Peels Back Centuries Henredon ni FALL FANTASTIC UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE SALE40 OFF! 2929 ROCK ROAD WICHITA whether they were among those who met Coronado during the quest for gold and other riches Such answers can come only after weeks of digging and months of research And then there may be no answers at all "Each site is different Each site is a new Lees said TN MANY respects the Wichita were perhaps the most successful people ever to live in the Marion Lees said "They had a highly successful agricultural economy Their large permanent villages were probably home to tens of thousands of people more than live in the area Lees said he does not yet know how long the Wichita lived here or EagtotiMcon Graphic tween the historical society and the Kansas Department of Transportation work on the section of the bypass that will cover the site has been baited until the excavation Is done In late November Department officials said that the dig won't delay the highway project because workers had plenty of other construction to do on other sections of the bypass The excavation will cost 180000 The remains at the site are similar to those found in other parts of central Kansas and belong to what archaeologists call the "Great Bend Indians of that era lived In luge grasecovered huts and crafted elaborate pottery and stone tools The site and others similar to it were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as the Marion Archeological District THESE LAST FEW DAYS ARE GOLDEN DIG From 1 A pieces The key finding enough of them to teU you what the puzde is supposed to look like in very slow The site lint noted by professional archaeologists in 1973 and then thought to be relatively small was excavated by Wichita State University faculty and students two yean later -Three weeks ago when con--structlon of the US 56 bypass around Marion reached the area Lees was sent to make a routine final site check It was merely a precaution and he did not expect to find important remains HAD them take off the top layer of grass so I could see the ground beneath It" Lees said "When that was token off I started discovering artifacts" To the untrained eye those artifacts were only chips of flint and bone To Lees they were strong evidence of a large settlement I was a much bigger site than had originally been Lees said "Rather than be a tow hundred feet square it turned out to be at least a quarter of a mile long and who knows how The remains had gone undetected because they were burled under uncultivated pasture and dense vegetation Once discovered however such sites tend to harbor unusually well-preserved artifacts "Archaeologists are interested in Lees said "So when we find a whole pile of it been really well taken care of pretty UNDER A 1971 agreement be- Wastes BfflOKd SUPERFUND From 1 A CONGRESSIONAL proponents of the bill said Wednesday that even if Reagan was to ignore dramatic votes in favor 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