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The Economist reports on a trend you’ll likely either find fascinating or disturbing:

Bloomington, a suburb of St George, has built a cul-de-sac around a huge boulder marked with petroglyphs—a model that will soon be followed by a developer near Salt Lake City. A site near Cortez, in Colorado, which is dotted with more than 200 Indian ruins, is being marketed as “America’s first archaeological development”: buyers can do their own excavations, but must bequeath what they find to a local museum. Perhaps the most extraordinary example is Mountain’s Edge, a half-built suburb near Las Vegas, where an ersatz archaeological dig has been incorporated into a park. Clearly, if a site lacks history there is a need to invent it.