<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="line-height:19.696px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In 2008, on a dig in the First Nation’s Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, archaeologists made a small but stunning discovery: a tiny clay pot.</font></span></span></p><p style="line-height:19.696px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Though it might not have seemed very impressive at first glimpse, this little piece of pottery was determined to be about 800 years old.</font></span></span></p><p style="line-height:19.696px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">And inside that pot? Something that changes how we’re looking at extinction, preservation, and food storage, as well as how humans have influenced the planet in their time on it.</font></span></span></p><p style="line-height:19.696px">To read more: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><a href="http://www.cfweradio.ca/on-air/blogs/dustin-mcgladrey-351668/entry/471/" target="_blank">http://www.cfweradio.ca/on-air/blogs/dustin-mcgladrey-351668/entry/471/</a></span></p></div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font><div><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Megan Haidet</font><div>Seeds of Success<br><div>National Collection Curator</div><div>Seeds of Success</div><div>202-912-7233</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.blm.gov/sos" target="_blank">www.blm.gov/sos</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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