A man who federal officials say spoiled a major archaeological find when he looted ancient American Indian remains from a Nevada cave in the 1980s has been fined $2.5 million in civil penalties. Jack Lee Harelson destroyed what could have been one of the most important archaeological cave sites in the Great Basin, Bureau of Land Management officials said. Before Elephant Mountain Cave was looted during several years in the early 1980s, it contained a 10,000-year record of human life in northern Nevada.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
