> After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, New York
> scientists
> found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the
> conclusion
> that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100
> years ago.
>
>
> Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed,
> California scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly
> after, headlines in
> the LA Times newspaper read: "California archaeologists have found
> traces of
> 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors
> already had an
> advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier
> than the New
> Yorkers."
>
> One week later, "Moose Jaw Times Herald", a local newspaper in
> Saskatchewan reported the following:
>
> "After digging as deep as 30 meters in sagebrush fields near Moose
> Jaw,
> Ole Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found
> absolutely
> nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Saskatchewan
> had already gone wireless."