Darla Spencer: 2 books
Early Native Americans in West Virginia
The Fort Ancient Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
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...
by Darla Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
The first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. They created wild theories about who the mysterious "Moundbuilders" might be. It was not until the 1880s that Smithsonian Institution investigations revealed...