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Ice age artifact discovered in Alexandria, VA

Archaeologists believe they've found artifacts from the last ice age in Alexandria.

The discovery came at a site that's being excavated for a memorial to freed slaves. While searching for the graves of about 1,800 former slaves buried there in the late 1860s, archaeologists found what they believe is a stone tool that's about 13,000 years old.
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