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"Just scrap the whole thing and be honest," said Sharron Harelson, 61, of Atkins, Ark. "It was hard for us to understand anything that was coming out of Washington," Harelson continued.
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In the 1980s, Harelson discovered the remains of two Pleistocene camels and an exceptionally well preserved 25,000 year old horse near Nevada's Pyramid Lake.
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During the course of the excavations, Harelson and his wife uncovered two large Archaic period baskets containing the bodies of a boy and girl that radiocarbon dating would later show to be 2,000 years old.
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Harelson is now being held without bail at the Jackson County Jail.
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How Harelson landed in jail charged with attempted aggravated murder is a story that stretches back to 1980, when he first began illegally excavating Elephant Mountain Cave, a remote rock-shelter on government land in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
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For his part, Harelson insists he dug only a "test hole" at the site in hopes that it would interest archaeologists in the rock-shelter.
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According to the government, Harelson dug at the site for years, building a wall to conceal the dirt pile he created.
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After his 1996 conviction, Harelson lost his license as an insurance agent.
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The transaction was captured on tape and the Oregon State police arrested Harelson at his home.
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As an example of the archaeological significance of the cave, Barker points to a pair of sandals Harelson plundered that have been radiocarbon dated to 10,000 years ago, making them the oldest footwear ever found in Nevada and among the oldest in the world.
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