“(The artifacts) are all pieces of a puzzle and once you take one piece out, it’s really irritating because you can’t find it again. “Once you take it from where it is, it loses its context with the rest of the things that are found,” said park archeologist Robin Connors. officials said.Ī smoke stained pottery shard, center, lies on top of the ground at a village site in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.Īrchaeologists say the damage is irreversible. The actions are criminal and in some cases could lead to felony charges of destruction of cultural resources. Deep and cylindrical, the mortars - used to grind acorns - had been created and handed down over several centuries, with some up to 1,000 years old.Īuthorities said that, at some of the locations, they’ve found shovels, screens, rakes and other tools that looters have used to dig up the earth and sift through soil to uncover arrowheads, other stone projectiles, and potsherds - broken pieces of pottery. That site features a huge slab of granite in which more than 40 bedrock mortars had been dug by generations of Kumeyaay women. State Parks Archaeologist Robin Connors looked at material that was not taken by looters after they dug the hole at left and screened its contents earlier this year at a village site inside the Cuyamaca State Park.Īt another archaelogical site, not too far west of state Route 79, the remains of an ancient village had been plundered. “I’ve seen some pretty looted sites across California and that one was one of the worst I’ve ever seen, and it was one of the first ones we found,” said Dan Falat, superintendent of the California State Park’s Colorado Desert District, which includes Cuyamaca Rancho, Palomar and Anza-Borrego Desert state parks. It's Harry's militant parenting that is no good.State parks officials and Native American leaders are decrying what they say has been a devastating spate of vandalism and looting at historically and culturally significant sites in San Diego County’s backcountry.Īt least five times in the past two years, looters have targeted Indian archeological sites within Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, authorities said.Īt one site, 21 dig holes were found, each the size of a dinner table. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," takes on a whole new meaning. All that's missing is a blast of deadly magic turning Albus into a greasy stain on Hogwarts cobblestones if he's even in the same wing as Scorpius Malfoy. Doing this basically turns the Marauder's Map into the all-seeing Eye of Sauron. Not only does Harry use it to spy, he bullies McGonagall into using it to spy on Albus. ![]() ![]() Harry is pillaging and plundering his son's freedom and trust, which is a lot more painful to watch than if the map had been put through a shredder in Hermione's office. So, like a pirate, basically.īut Harry Potter and the Cursed Child takes the Marauder's Map and shows Harry using it to monitor his own son. "Marauder" means a looter, an outlaw who roams about pillaging and plundering. First off, what does Marauder mean, though? That's a good SAT word to know. Seriously, how cool is the Marauder's Map? It's pretty darn cool. Like approximately 3.7 billion other people, we freaking loved the Marauder's Map when we first discovered it in Prisoner of Azkaban.
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