Early Native Americans in West Virginia
Subtitle: the Fort Ancient culture
By: Darla Spencer
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781467118514
Subjects: Indians of North America; Antiquities; Fort Ancient culture; Excavations (Archaeology); Material culture; History; HISTORY / Native American; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional
Other titles: Native Americans in West Virginia
Description: 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. -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and index.
Table of contents: title: Background; title: The Fort Ancient culture; title: Fort Ancient chronology; title: Fort Ancient sites in West Virginia; title: Who were the Fort Ancient people?