Posted on 05/14/2007 9:38:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...head curator Scott Speedy... said it would be difficult to estimate just how many individual relics he's responsible for at the museum. He just knows he'll have to go through a lot of boxes containing materials from the prehistoric Paleo Indian nomads to Civil War artifacts unearthed at the Reed Farmstead in Hardy County during work on Corridor H... The collection currently being stored at Grave Creek used to be housed at the Blennerhassett Museum in Wood County and various other state institutions. About 11 years ago, the collection was shipped up to Moundsville. The rest of the collection has been under the control and care of private contractors that worked with the state prior to large excavation work that involved federal money... Once the Grave Creek annex is complete, the company will be required to ship materials gathered during the surveys back to the state. The materials will be received at a special loading dock at the annex. Materials currently at Grave Creek and on display there might come from those gathered during the 1838 excavation of the Grave Creek Mound, built by the Adena people between 250 and 150 B.C. -- beads, flint tools and mica and copper ornaments.
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"The Adena folk were unusually tall and powerfully built; women over six feet tall and men approaching heights of seven feet have been discovered. It would seem that a band of strikingly different people of great presence and majesty had forced their way into the Ohio Valley from somewhere about 1000 B.C. - Robert Silverberg "
I'm reminded of theose Cro-Magnon folks we talked about the other day.
Great link.Among the honored dead,six feet(height)was not unusual.An inquiring mind wants to know:Could these folks been european?I know that runs counter to pc theory....
Some say the presence of haplogroup X DNA in the Indian tribes of the northeast is evidence of such but, I think the jury is still out.
“bling”
Must we *always* adopt every stupid piece of slang the music, crime, and drug culture comes up with?
The rule on FR is to use the original headline.
IOW, it wasn’t “my bad”.
“IOW, it wasn’t “my bad”.”
I didn’t mean to imply that it was.
That’s okay, I was just setting up the “my bad” thing. ;’)
I thuthpected as much, but I didn’t want to take a chance on offending.
The first time I heard the expression “bling” (or maybe it was “bling-bling”) I had no idea what was being talked about. :’) Of course, some people say “jew-la-ree” instead of jewelry, so I guess we can’t win... ;’)
“The first time I heard the expression “bling” (or maybe it was “bling-bling”) I had no idea what was being talked about.”
That’s the whole point. People in “in-groups” make up terms, then feel themselves superior to those who don’t know the term. It’s moronic.
FWIW, IMHO, IGW. ;’)
Now, now, those are useful acronyms, and glossaries are available.
:’)
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