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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Catherine Saillant / The Bulletin
December 5, 2008
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Researchers gathered recently in a small, darkened lab near Santa Barbara, nervously pacing as a digital camera snapped hundreds of images of a shard of pottery resting a few feet below the lens.
There was good reason for the anxiety. The terra-cotta fragment is....