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Early Native Americans in West Virginia : the Fort Ancient culture / Darla Spencer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Darla, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture.
- History.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Fort Ancient culture.
- Indians of North America.
- Antiquities.
- West Virginia--Antiquities.
- West Virginia.
- Indians of North America--West Virginia--Antiquities.
- Fort Ancient culture--West Virginia.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--West Virginia.
- Material culture--West Virginia--History--To 1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Other Title:
- Native Americans in West Virginia
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Once Though 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Background
- The Fort Ancient culture
- Fort Ancient chronology
- Fort Ancient sites in West Virginia
- Who were the Fort Ancient people?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781625857217
- 1625857217
- Publisher Number:
- 99984096272
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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