Posted on 05/30/2006 10:18:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
An archaeological dig at southern Indiana's Angel Mounds complex has uncovered a pottery-making operation that reveals the artistic skills of the Indians who lived there hundreds of years ago. Indiana University researchers believe they've uncovered remains of a potter's house once used by the Indians who inhabited the area overlooking the Ohio River from 1100 to 1450 A.D. Excavations have revealed pottery tools and masses of prepared but unfired clay awaiting shaping into bowls, jars or figures which suggest that the structure that once stood there was used to make the pottery now found in shards across the site... The excavations reveal that the Indians of the Middle Mississippian culture used ground mussel shells to temper clay for pottery, making it stronger and easier to shape. Scientists began studying the site last year after an underground imaging device called a magnetometer showed the remains of more than 100 homes and a stockade wall thousands of feet long in the grassy fields near the site's 10 mounds... The students have uncovered dozens of pot shards, as well as bones, disc-shaped pieces of coal and shells. Researchers also have found evidence of a flint-working operation at the site, where the Middle Mississippian Indians hunted and farmed on the rich bottom lands of the Ohio River.
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I've been wondering how long it would take for things like this to show up here.
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