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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Next time they reprint this I recommend including a good street map so you can look ...By Donna C.A must read for anyone from Jamestown RI. Fascinating. full of interesting history and colorful stories. This should be required reading for Jamestown students. I wish I had known half these stories when I was growing up there! Next time they reprint this I recommend including a good street map so you can look up the various locations. I had to print out a map from the internet.
