You never know, what’s in store under your house! It may once day turn out to be an archeological site. This is exactly what happened with Greenfield Citrus Nursery owner John Babiarz in Mesa. Once to hold a Wal-Mart store in near future, the site in suburban Mesa is discovered to be a bed of prehistoric remnants! Yes, the site was dug up to find bones of a 10,000-year-old prehistoric camel to everybody’s surprise.
The bones were excavated by a nursery owner, found at the bottom of a hole that is being dug up at new ornamental citrus tree. Arizona State University geology museum curator Brad Archer informed that the bones belonged to a camel that walked the land here until about 8,000 years ago!
The region seems to be rich with such prehistoric reserves, as Archer said,
In my 15 years at ASU doing this work I can think of six or seven times when finds this important have been made. This is the first camel. Others have been horses, once a mammoth on Happy Valley Road. This sort of thing is extremely rare.
The camel bones will go to the Arizona State University for display, but excepting some, most will be put to display after several months, as it would take time for both sorting out and stabilizing them.
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