Man sentenced for stealing Ancestral Puebloan artifacts

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A man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for taking items from an Ancestral Puebloanceremonial site at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in southwestern Colorado, prosecutors saidyesterday.Lonnie Shadrick Winbourn, 57, of Cortez, Colo., was sentenced for violating the Archaeological ResourcesProtection Act. Prosecutors said he traveled to the monument several times in May and June 2017 and excavatedthe ceremonial area, which includes a large dance plaza, the remnants of an underground room and multiplehuman burial sites.Winbourn was pulled over and arrested on an unrelated warrant June 4, 2017, and a Bureau of LandManagement ranger found pottery shards in his pocket. A search turned up 64 stolen items, including jewelry, anax head and other tools.