Entire ancient village uncovered in Phoenix

Crews are finishing construction on the city’s latest affordable housing project, but beneath that lies an ancient O’odham village called “La Ciudad."

[antdub]

The entire valley is built on ancient ruins

[magoo]

I've been in the building trades for many years. I've heard stories of workers ignoring discoveries. They don't want the job to stop/ shut down. So they work faster. Fun fact: pyramids once stood in Ohio.

[TonyP]

Phoenix will probably just create another highly paid position for the" Office of Expressing How Much We Feel For You", which will of course, do nothing.

[SOP]

"we have an agreement with them"
Sounds like someone got paid off.

[bcgambit]

Meanwhile there's hundreds of abandoned strip-malls throughout the valley, some of which have been that way for decades.
Plenty of better locations to build/repurpose - this is just a "throw it up cheap and embezzle the rest" job.

[ricinro]

Phoenix was founded by reusing and upgrading the original canals of the hohokam. The early settlers had to clear brush and flatten the mounds that were left behind to make irrigated fields. The settlers knew the mounds were hohokam sites but had to be removed for agriculture. Today, developers are in the same position.

[hatchetryda]

Did you know there was a cemetery/ mass grave by the stadium down town? It was relocated to Pioneer Memorial Cemetery.

[jasonsiquieros]

My ancestors will be having a ball with the new tenants once they get settled in😈😈👹

[Mrblackstar]

Greed and disrespect. Corporate America makes me sick.

[TSC-hrir]

LET OUR ANCESTORS REST
GREETINGS FROM AUSTRALIA

[cyankirkpatrick]

Such disgrace that they would want to place another building there.

[original]

When they demolished the dupa villa projects a few years back they found native American artifacts,

[dxjx]

Poltergeist, guess these guys didn't catch that movie😳😬🤷‍♂️ probably not a good idea to move there

[Liamu]

This is a tough one. How do you weigh the benefits from this much needed project to help out the poor and disenfranchised versus further destruction of the culture of a people who have suffered too much for too long at our hand? There is no winner here without someone getting deeply hurt.

[unknownviewer]

Has anyone ever forgot the story of Marcos De Niza apartments, I lived in there it was a graveyard department was on ghostly encounters

[EURIMAKEUPTUTORIALS]

There will definitely be many hauntings

[coreyk]

Somehow you need to get the school districts involved to teach kids how to become archeologists let them go down there and do a little digging here and help gather up artifacts and learn about.

[powerconverters]

What upsets me is in America most contractors tell there workers not to say anything just keep digging. Most parts of the world naturally want to preserve there ancient history.
Not us we are like screw it keep business flowing. It bothers me because America's history is a big mystery when it comes to history before the native Americans.
This may have possibly been the land of gients. The Smithsonian have covered that up since 1912.

[papagiraffe]

Everything is built on the remains of something else.

[BORN-to-Run]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!
This breaks my heart, as well.
Europeans would NEVER do that to their ancestors.
They would NEVER, once they found-out, pave over the
cemetery the Founding Families were buried in.
Native Americans DESESRVE the same respect!@