Early Native Americans in West Virginia : the Fort Ancient culture / Darla Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Darla, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--West Virginia--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Fort Ancient culture--West Virginia.

Fort Ancient culture.

Excavations (Archaeology)--West Virginia.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Material culture--West Virginia--History--To 1500.

Material culture.

History.

Antiquities.

West Virginia--Antiquities.

West Virginia.

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Native Americans in West Virginia

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2016.

Summary:

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.

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.

ISBN:

9781467118514

1467118516

OCLC:

950745772

Publisher Number:

99984130665