"I am saying that this shovel handle is itself a five-thousand-year-old ’fact that could fetch a high price on Cradle," Doc said, lifting it up and brushing the dirt from its broken end. Ariane snapped a picture of it and thumbed at her tablet. "It was thrown away," Doc continued, "because it was of no use to its owners, who knew that they could get wooden poles anywhere in Beringia just by cutting down a tree."