“We found some neat stuff, both historic and prehistoric,” is how Benn, 63, research coordinator and principal investigator for Bear Creek Archeology of Cresco, Iowa, puts it.
Benn and his Bear Creek team are working under a $295,000 contract with the Army Corps of Engineers to survey, dig and test and then recover and preserve artifacts from an area that the Corps will disturb as it builds a new system of levees and flood walls to protect the city from a repeat of the city’s 2008 flood. The archeological work is taking place on just the east side of river, which is the Corps’ focus for now. However, city officials are committed to finding local and state funds to also build west-side flood protection, which will prompt an archeological study there if funds are found….
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