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Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of the Fort Ancient culture resided along the rich bottomlands of southern West Virginia during the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric periods. Lost to time and rediscovered in the 1880s, Fort Ancient sites dot the West Virginia landscape. This volume explores sixteen of these sites, including Buffalo, Logan and Orchard. Archaeologist Darla Spencer excavates the fascinating lives of some of the Mountain State's earliest inhabitants in search of who these people were, what languages they spoke and who their descendants may be. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The Fort Ancient people seem to have been like everybody else, based on the scanty remains; they fought wars (some of the skeletons recovered have multiple embedded arrow points); they mourned their dead, especially children (who were often buried with extensive grave goods); and they went about their lives hunting and fishing and farming and smoking. They favored a kind of jewelry called “marine shell gorgets”, with a pattern carved into a shell that came from the distant coast. It’s not clear how or if they are related to other native peoples; burials and grave goods have been given to the Seneca Nation.
A quick and easy read, and informative. The long lists of sites and recovered artifacts might have gotten boring but Ms. Spencer managed to keep me interested. ( )