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Pre-Columbian fossil collectors unearthed

Native Americans that lived in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico more than a millennium ago are well-known for their distinctive pottery but now may have a new claim to fame: They collected fossils — apparently for ritual use within their homes, and probably from a site dozens of kilometres from their village. 

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