Archaeologists express the challenges of studying Native American artifacts after items were stolen
VIDEO: Culture behind stolen Panhandle artifacts By Taylor Mitchell | March 8, 2021 at 6:34 PM CST - Updated March 9 at 1:12 AM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - After two men pleaded guilty to stealing Native American artifacts from the Cross Bar Management area, archaeologists say it will be hard to try and reconstruct the context of the historical site.
Federal agents report confiscating 1,500 artifacts from them; things like burial beads and arrowheads.
The artifacts were from the Antelope Creek Culture which was a group of Native Americans living in the Texas Panhandle sometime between 1200 and 1500 A.D.