State: Artifact found in 1973 may be more than 3K years old

MONROE, N.C. (AP) — An item found in North Carolina in 1973 may be thousands of years old, according to the state’s office of archaeology. The 7-inch carved artifact found by a Monroe landowner is suspected to be a grooved adz, a tool used for smoothing or trimming wood, The Charlotte Observer reports. It could […]