ARTIFACTS FOUND IN DEATH VALLEY BEING ANALYZED.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer A National Park Service expert departed Death Valley National Park  Death Valley National Park is a mostly arid United States National Park located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in southern Inyo County and northern San Bernardino County in on Friday with photographs and tiny samples of a battered chest and its contents that may have been left by a lost Gold Rush expedition 149 years ago. Western Archeological and Conservation Center conservator conservator n. a guardian and protector appointed by a judge to protect and manage the financial affairs and/or the person's daily life due to physical or mental limitations or old age. Gretchen Voeks will consult with experts and examine reference books to try to authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. dates for the find, park officials said. ``She's going to follow up with a couple of things, possibly do chemical analysis on some of the things she found,'' said Death Valley National Park spokesman Tim Stone. ``She actually asked us not to say much. . . . She just doesn't want to say anything that's negative or positive now.'' The age of some of the objects may be verified by next week, though chemical analysis of the samples Voeks scraped off objects could take two weeks or so, Stone said. The chest was found in November in a rocky alcove high in the Panamint Mountains, Death Valley's western wall. Pearblossom archeologist Jerry Freeman said he found the chest while researching the possible route taken by the lost gold miners trying to escape Death Valley. Freeman, his two adult daughters and two friends returned in December on a backpacking backpacking Sport of hiking while carrying clothing, food, and camping equipment in a pack on the back. In the early 20th century backpacking was primarily a means of getting to wilderness areas inaccessible by car or by day hike. expedition retracing the lost miners' route. They retrieved the chest, at times having to lower it with ropes down 20-foot cliffs, said Allan Smith, a documentary filmmaker who was on the trek. The place was so hard to reach, he has no doubts the chest is authentic, Smith said. The chest was turned over Jan. 5 to the National Park Service, and officials are trying to verify its authenticity. Park officials said the find, if authentic, would make a fabulous addition to knowledge about the first white people to see North America's lowest, hottest, driest spot. The chest contained gold and silver coins Silver coins are possibly the oldest mass form of coinage. Silver as a coinage metal has existed since the times of the Greeks. Their silver drachmas were popular trade coins. , bowls, books, a flintlock flintlock Ignition system for firearms developed in the early 16th century. It superseded the matchlock and the wheel lock and remained in use until the mid-19th century. The most successful version, the true flintlock, was invented in France in the 17th century. pistol, plus a letter signed with the name of William Robinson William Robinson, or Will Robinson or Bill Robinson or other nicknames, may refer to:
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