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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ANASAZI/ Pot hunters turn archaeological ruins into modern crime scenes
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CORTEZ - Bruce Bradley was struck by the curse of the Anasazi
when he was 16 years old.
He was on the Navajo reservation, doing what he loved best -
exploring, looking for Indian ruins - and an elderly Navajo farmer
called him over to his land.
"Anasazi," the farmer said, pointing to ancient bones and
pottery exposed by a crack in the ground. The old man handed
Bradley a shovel and said, "You dig. Anasazi. You dig."
The farmer wanted the ghosts of Anasazi Indians, which he
believed inhabited the bones and pottery, removed from his pasture.
But he also believed that if he dug up ...
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