The Democrats Are Helping Trump Kill Archaeology
In a video essay on Archaeology with Flint Dibble, archaeologist Flint Dibble argues that a bipartisan permitting bill advanced by the Senate 73 to 25, with 21 Democrats including Chuck Schumer voting yes, would gut the historic preservation rules that uncovered sites like a stratified Native American settlement beneath Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, Revolutionary War cannons in Savannah, and an enslaved workers' cemetery at Catoctin Furnace. He says the bill also narrows tribal consultation, citing border wall damage and the Trump administration's reopening of land around Chaco Canyon to drilling, and urges viewers to contact their senators while the bill still awaits the House.
