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By Paul Sullivan Date published: 11/17/2007
THERE ARE TIMES Some call that serendipity. I just say it's what makes life interesting. In any event, it's what happened not long ago when I set out in search of birds The bird-finding had been hot there and a friend and I sighted hawks galore, including kestrels, a Cooper's hawk, a lone northern harrier and a zone-tailed hawk--an Arizona rarity. Two days later we drove Right off, we re-found the visiting white pelican, showing up as a large white glob After an hour, I set out What I found was an archaeological dig--three digs, actually. From large explanatory panels I learned that these digs were the remains of what had once been home to a community known now as the Prescott Culture. Prehistoric village For some 300 years, beginning in A.D. 850, an advanced culture lived in this area, farming the soils along Willow Creek and hunting both small game in the surrounding valley and larger species in nearby mountains to the south and west. Several years ago archaeologists conducted an extensive excavation at the site, learning much more about these people, who drifted away, possibly to be absorbed into other groups in this part of Arizona in the 12th and 13th centuries. Apparently no one knows just how many people once lived in the prehistoric village whose remains I now studied, but it must have been fairly extensive for that time since there is solid evidence of about 20 structures in two separate locations on this one streamside hill.
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