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地點: 密西西比醫學院擴建時,工人在工地發掘並發現很多很多松木盒子,考古隊進駐。。。。。。。
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5 Z; D% E' i4 s) l+ Y時間: 2013春 。。。。。。。。讓我帶著我們飛越陰森恐怖的19世紀密西西比州瘋人院吧!9 L4 d1 F( i# Y4 @; |$ v
, \5 f0 \: ~3 H' o中新网3月10日电 据美国媒体9日报道,美国密西西比大学杰克逊医学中心工地最近发现多达2000个墓穴。专家称,那些被树丛、野草和垃圾掩埋的尸体很可能揭示该州疯人院埋藏的历史秘密。 勘探人员上个月在只有几英尺深的地下发现数十具棺材,而医疗中心工地位于昔日的密西西比州疯人院(Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum) 原址。 但那个公墓的地址在历史记录中消失了,直到最近专家为校园扩建而进行的勘探中,发现了估计多达2000个墓穴。 这一发现迫使医学中心暂停扩建,开始调查及研究如何处理即将建设大楼那个地方的2000具尸体问题。 最近几年,纽约、加州、得克萨斯、伊利诺伊和威斯康辛开发商也在本来以为是空地的区域发现大量墓穴。 佛罗里达大学法医人类学教授金莫尔(Erin Kimmerle)说,随着开发工程,人们会看到更多类似发现。 但密西西比大学这次所发现的规模却提出一个重要问题:这些人是谁? 早在1955年,建筑工人和合同商就曾在医疗中心那个位置发现松木盒子,有时发现4-6个装有尸骸的盒子。到1990年代,准备建设一家洗衣房的工人发现大约40个无名墓。 去年,那个校园的一段道路翻修时,发现66具棺材。多年来,当地谣传很多。有人说,那些棺材属于内战死亡者;有人说里面是奴隶尸体。 但专家不同意上述说法。历史记录显示,那个地方不是主战场,州档案也没有那里是奴隶公墓的记录。 医疗中心正在同密西西比州立大学人类学系和赫尔曼(Nicholas Hermann)领导的一个团队合作,试图揭开历史谜团。刚刚发现墓穴,赫尔曼团队就说,那些尸体属于1855年开办的一家疯人院。 该团队专家安德森(Derek Anderson)说,我们估计没有衣物、甚至没有扣子和别针,因为在1800年代后期和1900年代初期疯人院的人死了之后或者只用裹尸布、或者什么都不用就下葬了。
3 y, R! w) Z+ R0 [A disturbing discovery has put a construction project on hold at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.- ]: n$ m& i( v; f5 d) ^9 P* z2 X: c2 v9 ~
Just as work was being done to survey the area where the hospital planned to build a parking garage, 1,000 bodies have been found to be buried on the site.
( p, G& V& Q) ]: aNone of the bodies have been identified but they are believed to have been patients at the Mississippi State Mental Asylum 100 years ago., A2 W" e" u D; z+ H1 B% [7 M
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e7 Z, M0 I( q! ` b* tGrave situation: Future progress for the state's longtime medical school has collided with the ghosts of Mississippi's past ? the discovery of a 1,000 bodies buried on its campus and the likelihood of more+ K' { B. g9 b+ z" e" Q/ ~7 v
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- M+ U6 A8 J: _% f3 S1 n: {3 dWhat lies beneath: Officials of the fast-growing University of Mississippi Medical Center had planned to build a parking garage east of the dental school, where a grove of trees now sits. But testing in the area revealed 1,000 bodies, believed to have been patients at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum a century ago.& Y9 h p& Z, d2 D
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?3 A# U9 ]: M* x0 Q9 dBuilding work: Officials of the fast-growing University of Mississippi Medical Center had planned to build a parking garage east of the dental school, where a grove of trees now sits
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Graves: 1,000 braves have been found in the place of the State Lunatic Asylum which opened on the site in 1855, housing 150 patients
- Z) h- u! G$ dOfficials now believe there may be as many as 2,000 century-old graves underneath the soil.
6 e( b8 \( u# E" {Archaeologists have been studying grave sites discovered on the UMC campus for some time; several dozen grave sites were discovered last year.
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They may also have originated from an African American church that used to stand there, and an old potter's field.
$ L3 A! Y T" G1 W0 Z! {5 h, C1 aThe discovery wasn't entirely unexpected, university spokesman Jack Mazurak told Yahoo News.
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( y. J T0 B' K+ E" tCostly: Paying for reburials elsewhere would cost about $3,000 a piece, or $3 million total: Q3 s# u8 f* q2 S2 |0 Z3 j
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& ?! |' v) i# K' M8 L: ^% [9 GThe discovery wasn't entirely unexpected: The property that the University of Mississippi Medical Center is located on used to be the location of the state insane asylum, which operated from 1855 to 1935& J! D8 b* A3 _; m- z: r
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" g" ]/ h- n e7 [8 HHistory: The State Lunatic Asylum opened on the site in 1855, housing 150 patients
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The future: New plans include building the parking garage next to the dental school' b7 ]0 g0 b; h1 y5 O5 d- T+ E
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Best laid plans: The plans may have to change. Medical center officials had hoped to use the property west of the dental school for future expansion, but they might have to rethink that approach, because other bodies may lie beneath the earth ? former slaves, TB victims and possibly even Civil War dead
( r$ J: |# O% z' T' G'The property that the University of Mississippi Medical Center is located on used to be the location of the state insane asylum, which operated from 1855 to 1935,' Mazurak said.
9 N8 R$ f; I. U( H'Historically we knew that there were a lot of graves, many of which were not marked. In the '90s, we took the handful of marked graves and reinterred them in a designated cemetery area,' he said.
( `/ o' t- c, I4 S'Throughout the years, as construction projects have gone on, on campus, we've occasionally run across a coffin. In fall of 2012, we were extending a road for a new intersection. That extension ran across an area that had rows of graves.' Mazurak said they found about 66 graves in that instance.
( E( @ D6 B6 Z u6 L) C) |# |Derek Anderson, an archeologist at Mississippi State is one of the team working on the graves.
) k, l/ [7 I. p c. n4 a6 D'We're guessing because there's no personal remains, no clothes, not even really any buttons or pins or anything, that they were probably residents of the asylum and either buried in a shroud or not buried with anything, so that would put them probably around in the mid to late 1800s to early 1900s,' said Anderson. : I: _5 O8 C2 g W9 X, D# ? l9 W5 R
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( e. T6 \1 y0 w3 W9 E9 {9 q$ ~From the archives: After the Civil War ended, the mental facility expanded to house 300 patients, and the area became known as Asylum Hill, a neighborhood that included houses, a school and a church for former slaves, Cade Chapel M.B. Church.5 y7 O5 w# J6 Z- n
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M) P' ~9 n; u B4 y/ u" IChecking it out: The recent discovery was made before any bodies were physically dug up
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Pricey: The cost to move and rebury the bodies, which would have added $3 million to the cost of the parking garage project at about $3,000 per grave5 p9 s0 Z& r6 l( [ S" E0 n7 f
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2013: Last year, more graves were found on campus. The bodies were carefully removed from the coffins and taken to the Cobb Archeology Institute at Mississippi State and laid out and individually examined
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$ v& @( }+ A4 ~3 i+ q9 BFound at last: Staff have always known there was a cemetery associated with the old asylum somewhere on the property, but no one knew for sure where it was until now7 r- h% i1 @/ b J. \/ n, T9 ~& w* I" i
Moving the bodies would reportedly cost about $3 million so the University has said it will probably look at alternate sites for construction, rather than try to relocate the graves., e# a4 d2 J! R& c: g! h
The expansion will most likely be relocated to another location on the 164-acre campus.
: C. q5 }4 ^( F. QIt's possible there could be more unmarked graves belonging to tuberculosis patients, former slaves, or possibly even Civil War dead, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
% p/ J) l/ H6 C$ L1 o: z4 [9 E1 OThe State Lunatic Asylum opened on the site in 1855, housing 150 patients.
+ ?! P: c5 t5 S& g/ TAfter the end of the Civil War, it expanded to house more than 300 residents in a district known as Asylum Hill.
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0 `: D) ~* B' J. \! cDelicate operation: Great care is being taken to treat with dignity the remains that have been found so far, and no doubt will be found in the future on the campus of UMMC in Jackson as it continues to progress7 B7 K3 i5 L/ _" k
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Hallowed ground: Experts think that future additions to the medical center and other buildings on campus will have to be reconsidered6 ?# W( @- r& [) M8 L7 A
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