Article: University of Arizona archaeologists dig Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. (NEWS ADVISORY)

-- NEWS ADVISORY -- TO CITY AND ASSIGNMENT DESKS:

ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIG FRESH KILLS

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanitation Commission Brendan Sexton will pay a courtesy call tomorrow (Thursday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m.) on a team of urban archaeologists from the University of Arizona and other colleges and corporations who are literally digging into the core of the 40-year-old Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island to explore the kind of trash and the decomposition rate of garbage generated in the 1940s right up to the present.

The site visit will occur at Sections 2 and 8 of the world's largest landfill. Take the West Shore ...

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