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Indian holocaust: Archeologists discover 50 ancestors at ARCO refinery
In all my professional life, I've never seen anything as terrible as this" says Frank McDowell, archeologist hired to by ARCO to over see the Gabrielino/Tongva Indian burial site discovered at the Carson Refinery near the Port of Los Angeles. McDowell arrived at the Arco site in mid-September, when workmen discovered pieces of a human skeleton. "Arco called in McDowell in respect to the Los Angeles Indian Community" stated Arco spokesman about the discovery. Working closely with the California State Native Heritage Commission, McDowell and his crew have been unearthing the site for the past few months." As we began excavating, it became apparent something big was going on here.
This was beyond being just a burial ground. These people obviously met sudden, very violent deaths" said McDowell.
Some 50 Gabrielieno/Tongva Indians, including two unborn children had been exterminated on the Arco site 200 years ago archeologists estimate.
The skeletal remains bear witness a violent deaths: ribs snapped from the sternum, forearm bones with hands sliced off, teeth bashed from skulls, blunt head trauma through skull fractures.
As workers continued to dig, the skeleton of one poor woman was discovered with her hands in front of her face, as if she died trying to protect herself. Another skeleton appears to have been so severely tortured, it appears to have been bent backward so violently; as if the victims had been laid over something, that the spine snapped and the head ended down near the pelvis. While some bodies seemed to...