Posts Tagged ‘mined’

Wyoming Declared Oldest Mine in Americas: Red Ochre Mined there 13,000 Years Ago!

Excavations that concluded in 2020 have confirmed an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming that was allegedly used by humans to produce red ochre 13,000 years ago! It is now officially the oldest known mine of any sort in the Americas Read more Section:  News History & Archaeology Read Later 

Ancestral Puebloans Deep Mined Life Saving Ice Age Cave Water

Recent research has shown that the ancient Ancestral Puebloans culture, in what is today New Mexico, burned controlled fires in volcanic ice melt lava tubes to survive major droughts. El Malpais, or the “bad lands,” was the name Spanish explorers gave to the harsh arid landscapes of modern-day western New Mexico. The Ancestral Puebloans were […]

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