Anthropological And Forensic Artifacts Of Basketball

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The first artifact that the archaologists and forensic anthropologists would find is my basketball. This artifact could be found in my house since it is meant for indoor use. It may still be intact concidering the fact that it is a very good-quality ball. It is very important to me because I had to spend $40 dollars of my own money on it. It is also important because it is an NBA game ball replica, meaning that that is the same type of ball that they use in the NBA. Plus, when I’m bored I can ride my bike up the the Bobenhammer Center and play basketball until I have to go home for some reason such as homework, dinner, etc. So if Gulf Shores is to be dug up in hundreds of years, they might find my basketball.
The scientists conducting the

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