Archeologists Dig Into Future NGA Site’s Past
Date Posted: June 27, 2016
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From St. Louis Public Radio: A 100-acre site in north St. Louis will be home to the sophisticated, high-tech National Geospatial Agency facility in few years.
At the moment, archeologists are trying to find out how people on the site once lived.
“The whole idea is to understand what people’s lives were in past and get a better feel for that,” said Joe Harl, principal investigator for Archeological Research Center of St. Louis.
The work began shortly after the NGA officially named north St. Louis as its choice for its new western headquarters. A track hoe is helping make quicker work by digging down several feet before archeologists start fine-tuning their search.