Quarry

The following ramble is how the ex- King Mob building collective slowly but surely became involved with nature wilding within a true anti-greenwash perspective. Down with recuperation / up with the authentic revolutionary transformation of everyday life. By Stuart Wise August 2011 (Additional notes and photos, July 2012). Originally published on the Dialectical Butterflies website.

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Intact artifacts and features found at the Powars II site, a red ocher (also known as hematite) quarry located in the foothills of the southern Rocky Mountains in Wyoming, demonstrate unequivocal evidence for red ocher quarrying by Paleoindians beginning 12,840 to 12,505 years ago.