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Description
The Athens County Historical Society and Museum and the City of Athens Government Channel (TGC) present Dr. Jerrel Anderson, from the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History. Dr. Anderson goes into great detail of the prehistoric and historic archaeological findings from Blennerhassett Island.
Visit the Blennerhasset Museum's website:
http://www.blennerhassettislandstatepark.com/museum.html
A
A
Okay.
Let
me
just
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
our
speaker
tonight.
We
are
really
very
lucky
to
have
dr
gerald
anderson
here.
He
is
with
the
blender
hassett
museum
and
I
hope
most
of
you
have
been
over
there
and
seen
the
museum
which
is
in
parkersburg
and
then
have
gone
out
to
the
island
and
have
seen
the
blenner
hassett
house
and
the
island
and
everything
there.
Those
two
things.
People
sometimes
get
confused
about
them,
but
he
is
the
archaeologist
for
that
blender
hassett
state
park
area.
A
So
he'll
talk
a
little
bit
about
both
the
prehistoric
and
the
historic
part,
but
we
know
that
he's
also
doing
research
about
hopewell
habitation
sites
around
circleville
and
that's
another
area
of
research
for
him
that's
ongoing
and
when
I
asked
him
this
year
I
said
you
know,
would
you
like
to
do
the
ones
about?
You
know,
updating
your
circleville
research
and
he
said
I'm
not
quite
ready
to
do
an
update
on
that
yet,
but
he
said
I've
got
a.
A
C
C
C
It
was
a
historic
site,
so
I've
dabbled
in
it
for
many
many
years
and
when
we
moved
to
circleville.
I
knew
exactly
what
I
was
getting
into
there
and-
and
it
was
everything
I
hoped
it
would
be,
plus
a
good
place
to
to
work.
Well.
Blair
hassett
island
is
here
pictured
here
from
the
point
park
in
parkersburg
west
virginia,
and
at
this
point
you
pick
up
a
paddle
boat
to
go
to
the
island,
but
just
a
block
away
is
the
museum.
C
C
This
island's
figured
probably
in
the
history
of
the
parkersburg
area,
for
for
many
many
years
and
for
example,
they
had
a
ballpark
out
there,
the
cincinnati,
reds
and
pittsburgh
pirates
played
on
the
island.
They
had
an
amusement
park
there
as
well,
but
forgive
me
for
this
poor
slide,
but
I'm
shooting
35
millimeter
size.
I
do
do
powerpoint,
but
I've
done
this
because
my
archive
you
know
I
is
in
a
35
millimeter
slide,
so
I
had
to
scan
this,
but
here's
blender
hassan
island,
it's
the
fourth
longest
island
in
the
ohio
river.
C
It's
about
four
miles
long
and
the
upper
part
now
is-
is
the
blender
hanson
island
state
historical
park,
dupont
company
owns
the
whole
island.
The
dupont
plant
is
right
here
they
own
the
island
for
the
water
right,
so
they
have
wells
at
this
end
of
the
island.
They
lease
it
to
this
state
park
for
a
dollar
a
year.
So
it's
a
pretty
good
bargain
and
the
upper
part
here
is
the
area
that
blender
has
lived
on
and
what
I'll
be
talking
about
is
both
prehistoric
and
historic,
archaeology
on
the
island.
C
We
have
both
in
spades,
and
this
is
the
area
around
the
mansion
I'll
be
talking
about
that.
There's
an
area
down
here
with
it.
What's
called
a
neil
house
which
I'll
talk
about
a
little
bit
later,
there's
a
neck
here
in
the
island
and
actually
in
1980
a
flood
flooded
right
through
the
island
and
cut
it
right
down
the
river
level
right
through
this,
this
neck
right
here
and
then
it
rises
up
on
this
area.
C
But
there
is
a
site
here
called
the
niels
landing
site
that
dates
around
1600
a.d
a
lot
of
burials
there
and
then,
when
they
put
the
big
blender
hazard
bridge
in
across
splinter,
hustle
island.
They
went
right
across
here
and
they
struck
a
big
pier
for
the
bridge
right
here.
They
did
a
lot
of
archaeological
work
there,
so
I'll
be
talking
about
these
different
sites
and
what
they,
what
they
comprehend
the
island
is
bucolic,
it's
a
beautiful
place.
C
When
you
go
to
an
island,
I
don't
care
where
you
are
you're
living
one
world
for
another
and
it's
very
calm.
It's
very
nice.
This
is
a
horse
pasture
and
we
have
people
that
have
teams
of
horses
and
they
give
horse
rides
on
the
island
to
people,
and
this
is
where
they
pasture
them.
So
it's
kind
of
a
scene
back
from
the
1800s
in
the
blender
hassan
era.
C
C
C
C
He
taught
modern
languages
and
writing
at
allegheny
college
in
pennsylvania,
and
then
the
civil
war
broke
out
and
he
joined
the
union
army
and
he
ended
up
being
stationed
at
fort
borman
in
parkersburg
west
virginia
and
there
he
met
isabella
and
the
rest
of
the
story
as
he
stayed.
He
married
her
and
he
stayed
in
the
area
and
he
taught
music
and
and
writing
at
the
wood
county
schools.
C
C
To
schools
in
any
group,
but
one
of
the
things
I'd
like
to
bring
up
is
he
had
a
very
modern
attitude
towards
things.
He
was
collecting
indian
artifacts
from
1865
to
1923
when
he
died
in
1923.
His
widow
sold
his
collection
in
total
to
the
board
of
education,
wood
county
and
they
housed
it
in
the
high
school
and
it
was
in
panels
in
the
cases
here.
C
Well,
eventually,
the
students
or
somebody
started
breaking
the
glass
and
stealing
the
artifacts,
so
they
brought
down
the
blender
asset
museum
for
safe
keeping
and
eventually
we
convinced
them
they
needed
to
donate
to
the
blender
asset
museum.
So
it's
donated
to
us
now
with
the
proviso.
If
the
museum
ever
goes,
that
the
board
of
education
will
get
it
back,
but
as.
C
What
we
have
is
one
of
these
tremendous
collections.
That's
in
one
piece
other
than
the
material
that
was
stolen.
That's
very
rare.
Most
of
these
artif
collections
were
broken
up
auctioned
off,
but
here
you
have
it,
but
not
only
that
you'll
see
later
he
actually
mounted
his
artifacts
on
panels.
He
had
a
beautiful
handwriting.
He
made
a
description
of
the
artifact,
so
all
this
is
still
there
as
originally
as
he
had
it,
and
he
would
tour
these
panels.
C
He'd
have
panels
they're
about
two
by
28
inches
by
about
a
foot
and
a
half
had
the
artifacts
on
these
were
his
slides.
He
had
a
box
he'd,
take
the
horse
and
wagon
and
go
and
talk
from
these
set
panels
and
we're
very,
very
fortunate
to
have
them
today,
but
here's
one
of
the
lectures
I'll
just
read
part
of
it
to
give
an
idea
of
what
this
man
was
about.
C
He
talks
about
mankind
here
this
is
the
initial
panel
and
he
has
this
quote:
he
who
is
not
interested
in
primitive
man
and
whose
head
does
not
thrill
when
he
looks
upon
the
rude
tools
and
weapons
and
garments
of
the
early
ancestors
of
the
human
race
must
be
a
law
of
low
man,
mentality
and
sadly
lacking
in
human
sympathy,
and
he
goes
on,
and
this
man
was
very
cogent,
remember
bear
in
mind.
This
is
the
early
1900s
that
man
is
old,
is
accepted
by
all
cultured
nations.
C
But
in
reply
to
the
question,
how
old
is
man?
We
can
only
say
that
his
age
may
not
be
computed
by
years
as
soon
as
the
earth
was
ready
and
the
atmospheric
conditions
favored
his
arrival.
He
came.
We
do
not
know
in
what
part
of
the
globe
man
originated.
It
may
be
asia,
it
may
be
africa.
This
man
was
onto
something
someday.
We
may
know
definitely,
as
we
now
know,
that
his
antiquity
dates
far
back
and
that
he
was
not
confined
to
one
locality.
A
C
C
B
C
C
C
C
It
was
an
optimistic
age.
We
had
a
lot
of
wealth
being
made
in
the
united
states,
the
new
plants
and
industries,
oil
and
all
that,
and
so
he
interpreted
this
collection.
He
would
look
at
the
artifacts
and
the
more
finely
crafted
ones
he
interpreted
as
being
the
later
ones.
The
crudest
would
be
the
first
it
turns
out,
though
the
crudest
artifacts
they
had
in
there.
He
said
these
are
some
of
the
first
ones
ever
made
by
mankind.
C
He
has
here
now
bear
in
mind,
he's
collecting
these
artifacts
when
a
lot
of
the
fields
are
being
first
turned
they're
cutting
down
the
forest
they're
using
draft
animals
to
pull
the
plow
so
they're
not
damaging
these
artifacts
and
people
are
finding
them
by
their
scabs.
When
you
first
plop
a
field
after
enforcement
has
been
on
it,
you
find
a
lot
of
artifacts,
particularly
in
the
eastern
united
states.
C
Most
of
the
artifacts,
even
the
very
ancient
times
were
within
the
plaza
because
you
did
not
have
much
soil
accumulation
in
the
forest
floor,
so
you
would
find
everything,
for
example.
These
points
here
are
what
are
the
phabes
cluster?
These
are
at
least
9,
500
years
old
and
they're
very
distinctive,
very
deep
notches.
Then
he
has
points
from
all
different
ages.
On
this
panel-
and
here
is
a
a
clovis
type
point
which
stays
partly
back
to
13
000
years
old,
so
these
were
being
plowed
out
now.
C
The
other
thing
where
he
got
many
of
the
artifacts
were
from
bladder
heist
line
during
after
the
floods
and
you'll
see
some
photographs
here
on
the
banks
and
blender
has
island,
but
they
had
tremendous
floods
in
those
days
and
after
the
floods,
they
were
eroding
out
skeletons
in
all
the
skeletal
material
and
all
the
burial
material,
with
the
skeletons
you'll
see
a
lot
of
that
in
the
panels
there
in
the
lower
level,
as
well
as
the
flynn
implements
here's
another
one
of
his
lectures.
These
are
on
panels
as
well.
C
C
It's
very
very
easy
to
read
this
one
of
the
things
he
believed
in
is
he
talks
about
the
age
of
polishing
and
the
age
of
chipping,
and
he
says
the
earliest
people
chip
their
artifacts
and
later
times
they
polish
them.
Well,
there's
a
lot
of
truth
in
that
we
see
that
in
north
america
and
also
in
europe.
C
Arrow
points
in
the
ohio
valley,
so
he's
got
all
kinds
of
different
points
here.
He
did
a
good
job
of
selecting
these
points
all
the
way
from
kranger
points
which
we
know
are
late.
True
arrowheads
all
the
way
to
all
these
dark
points
and
bear
in
mind
that
the
bow
and
arrow
was
not
really
did
not
really
come
into
common
use
until
700
a.d
and
the
american
indian
been
here
since
13
000
years
ago.
C
Prior
to
that
they
used
what
they
call
at
laos
or
spears,
and
it
would
be
a
shaft
and
then
they
have
a
socket
in
the
front.
They
would
have.
These
flint
implements
points
on
a
four
shaft.
It
was
generally
bone
or
wood
and
they
would
put
that
into
the
socket
of
the
shaft
and
they
threw
it
with
an
atlatl
or
spear
thrower.
It
had
a
notch
in
the
back.
They
would
get
extra
leverage.
D
C
D
C
Has
a
good:
this
is
a
good
example
of
different
point
types.
The
other
thing
he
did.
He
started
typing
them
now.
We
have
typologies
today,
but
look
at
here
he's
diagramming.
The
different
point
shapes
he
thought
that
they
probably
had
something
to
do
with
the
different
ages
and
of
course
he
did
not
have
radiocarbon
dating
at
that
point.
C
Here
are
some
other
panels.
What
was
happening?
I
didn't
I'll
show
you
later
in
the
neil
house,
there's
a
big
ford,
ancient
village
site
called
leonard
hassett
village,
and
it
dated
around
900
to
a
1400
a.d.
After
every
flood
it
was
going
through
the
burial
ground.
These
burials
were
coming
out
now,
with
the
burials
you
were.
Finally,
he
was
finding
a
lot
of
necklaces
points
and
that
type
of
thing,
but
one
of
the
ones
he
has
two
panels
on
was
the
bell
of
the
ohio
valley.
It
was
a
you're,
a
woman.
C
It
was
a
very
beautiful
skeleton.
He
talked
about
how
beautiful
the
skull
was,
and
here
are
the
neck.
These
are
gypsum
beads
that
were
with
it
and
also
another
panel.
I
don't
want
to
photograph
it,
they
actually
she
actually
had
a
needle
case,
a
little
powder
thing.
You
know
for
a
cosmetics
and
it
was
pretty
a
really
nice.
It's
a
nice
display
there's
another
panel
and
he
says
care
has
been
taken
to
preserve
as
near
as
possible.
The
original
design
and
positions
of
the
beads
as
worn
and
what
you
have
here.
C
These
are
candle
coal,
beads,
that's
anthracite,
coal,
the
black
and
then
all
the
rest
of
these
are
bones.
Probably
bird
bones-
and
here
you
have
a
gorgeous.
Now,
that's
probably
the
way
it
was
worn
like
we
wear
a
bow
tie
today,
so
that
was
in
combination
with
this
necklace,
but
these
are
very,
very
rare,
finds
you
know,
you
very
rarely
see
them
in
any
any
museum
that
have
the
whole
accoutrement
of
the
of
the
jewelry.
These
people
were
wearing
and
there
are.
C
Now,
I'd
like
to
go
through
the
different
ages
that
are
represented
by
the
stahl
collection
and
we'll
go
into
those
a
little
bit
with
the
modern
archaeology.
This
is
a
clovis
point
and
there
are
about
five
or
six
of
them
in
the
collection.
Some
of
them
have
been
stolen.
There's
a
lot
of
controversy.
Nobody
believed
that
they
could
have
come
from
an
island
in
the
ohio
river.
These
are
13
13,
000
year
old
points.
You
thought
they'd
be
very,
very
deep
in
the
ground.
C
Well,
jeff
graybill
was
the
professional
archaeologist
for
for
a
while,
and
he
was
down
along
a
beach
there.
In
the
north
side
of
bloodhound
he's
picking
up
flint
chips,
he
got
it
back
to
the
lab
was
cleaning
one
up.
He
found
a
part
of
a
base
of
a
clovis
point
right
on
the
beach
in
blender
hasselhoff,
so
these
did
come
from
the
island
and
there's
other
evidence
as
well.
C
So
there
were
clovis
people
around.
In
fact,
around
parkersburg
there's
a
lot
of
evidence
of
clovis
people
for
some
reason-
and
this
is
a
b-
this
would
be
the
scene
in
clovis
times.
This
is
a
mastodon
and,
of
course,
that
was
right
during
the
ice
age
and
you
did
not
have
the
harvard
force
we
have
today.
You
had
more
or
less
turned
to
like
parklands
and
you
had
spruce
and
aspen
and
the
grasses
and
such
as-
and
that
was
great
forage
for
these
big
big
animals.
At
that
time.
C
Of
course,
the
clovis
did
hunt
these
big
elephant-like
creatures
they
have,
particularly
in
the
west.
They
found
clovis
points
with
the
skeletons
they
did
find
the
clovis
point,
with
a
mastodon
skeleton
at
kinswood,
just
south
of
st
louis
and
recently
in
ohio.
There
was
a
mass
down
skeleton
found
in
a
bog
up
there
and
there
were
flint
tools
associated
with
it.
They
had
butcher.
You
see,
cut
marks
on
the
bone,
so
these
people
were.
B
C
C
The
paper
was
discolored
by
the
light
on
it,
and
I
was
in
plastics
and
we
aged
plastics
in
light
and
even
visible
light
really
will
degrade
organic
materials,
so
it
actually
darkens.
So
we
can
actually
see
the
outlines
of
some
of
the
points
now.
This
panel
is
selected
from
257
points
collected
after
the
flood
of
1908,
which
washed
through
the
island
that
was
at
the
neck.
I
showed
you
in
the
island
it
washed
through
there
and
they
collected
over
257
of
these
points.
Now
you
look
at
some
of
the
points
this
outline
right
here.
C
That
is
a
dovetail
point.
You
can
see
the
notches
here
in
the
round
base.
They
date
at
least
9.
500
years
ago,
they've
been
well
dated
in
the
midwest.
Here
is
probably
another
clovis
point
13
000
year
old
point
that
was
found
with
these.
Instead
of
some
other
points,
this
is
a
fairly
old
point,
but
you
have
a
dana
points.
C
We
have
done
that
and
I
went
to
a
local
photographer
who's
famous
in
parkersburg.
His
father
took
all
kinds
of
photographs
around
parkersburg
and
they
didn't
photograph
it
either.
He
said
you
may
want
to
look
at
the
yearbook.
They
took
pictures
of
the
students
in
front
of
these
cases,
so
I
may
see
something
in
the
background,
but
I
think
this.
B
C
Is
the
evidence
that
there's
very
early
stuff
on
the
island-
and
these
are
the
points
on
some
of
these
panels
that
still
are
there?
This
is
a
dovetail
like
the
one
I
showed
you
the
outline
of,
and
these
are
themes
points.
I
recently
wrote
an
article
in
this
type
of
point,
which
is
called
a
key
notch
or
expanded
notch
point.
You
can
see
the
expanded
notches,
they're
very
showy
and
they're,
always
beveled
they're
sharpened,
down
they're
knives,
and
I
conjected
in
my
article
that
there
are
women's
tools.
C
C
So
there
was
a
real
definite
division
in
the
roles
of
the
sexes
in
their
society
and
also
in
the
tools
they
use
and
let's
face
it,
the
women
are
doing
a
lot
of
the
work
and
butchering
that
they
need
sharp
tools
and
there
was
a
rk
burial.
There
were
five
of
them
discovered
in
delaware,
and
these
were
definitely
females
and
they
all
had
flint
napping
tool
kits,
so
they
were
actually
making
points
and
knives,
which
is
rather
surprising
to
a
lot
of
people.
It
doesn't
surprise
me
any.
C
I
have
two
daughters
and
a
very
capable
wife.
I
know
what
they're
up
to
capable
of
when
they
put
the
bridge
pier
on
the
blender
island
just
about
2003
or
2004.
They
did
some
exploratory
work
on
the
western
end
of
the
island,
and
these
are
some
of
the
people
in
our
group.
This
is
donna
brown.
She
was
a
park
superintendent,
mrs
diane
anderson,
no
relative
of
ours,
but
she
was
a
moving
force
at
the
blender
essence
foundation.
This
is
ray
schwick.
This
is
our
state
historic
historian.
C
C
C
C
These
are
the
points,
that's
the
type
of
point.
They
found
it's
a
16
foot
level.
This
is
called
a
kirk
stemmed
or
kirk
serrated
point
and
they
date
to
around
around
7
000
years
ago,
and
this
is
a
flint
tool
here,
it's
a
end
scraper.
This
is
a
working
surface
here
that
are
used
for
scraping
bone
heights,
whatever
a
very
common
tool
in
the
archaic
toolkit,
so.
C
Feet,
there's
old
stuff,
so
they
started
the
big
dig,
and
this
is
a
big
dig
on
blender
hesse
island.
It
was
not
well
known
at
the
time,
but
also
ocean
rules
also
stipulated.
When
you
had
this
big
a
hole
you
had
to
have
very
sloping
sides
to
it,
so
you
wouldn't
have
a
dangerous
slumping.
Slumping
is
a
real
danger
when
they
dug
the
sight
mound
in
the
ross
county
ohio
in
the
1920s.
C
C
B
C
Every
time
it
rained
the
water
would
not
only
come
on
this
boat,
it
would
wash
down
the
side,
so
they
had
all
kinds
of
rain
problems
and
it
turns
out
when
they
got
on
the
initial
levels.
They
found
all
kinds
of
indian
fireplaces,
so
they
had
to
go
very
very
slowly
and
as
a
result,
they
only
got
down
around
18
feet.
I
wanted
to
get
down
to
28
feet,
but
they
did
get
a
lot
of
it
done.
So
they
got
down
below
at
least
below
the
level
that
the
bridge
would
impact.
C
C
And
when
they
got
through
it,
what
they
kept
finding
were
these
fire
pits,
and
these
are
little
they
scoop
these
out.
These
are
cross
sections
of
fire
pits.
You
can
see
they're
all
over
the
place
they
had
to
cross-section
all
these
take
samples
out
dig
around
the
area
that
takes
a
lot
of
time
and
in
fact
they
didn't
need.
They
had
a
transit
up.
Above
here
the
man
on
the
transit.
They
didn't
even
measure
things
with
tape
measures
and
that
they
actually
had
a
guy
right
at
the
site.
C
They
found
an
artifact,
they
just
shot
it
in
with
the
transit
and
automatically
computerized
it.
So
he
didn't
have
to
go
through
a
lot
of
that
work
anyway,
but
it
was
a
massive
massive
excavation,
and
here
you
can
see,
he's
cross-sectioned
at
one
of
these
fire
pits.
Doug
has
scooped
us
out,
but
look
at
the
soil.
You
can
see
how
ancient
that
soil
is.
You
see
all
these
stained
small
roots
and
mineral
accumulations?
That's
been
that
way
for
at
least
seven
thousand
years.
That's
what
happens
to
the
soil
very
deep
down.
C
You
see
that
kind
of
a
pattern
and
here's
another
cross
section.
You
see
a
fire
pit
here
when
you
scrape
flat,
you
would
see
the
charcoal
and
redness
there.
You
see
the
red
in
here
from
the
fires
and
they
get
a
lot
of
charcoal
carbon
dates
out
of
the
side.
These
are
the
kinds
of
points.
These
are
some
more
of
the
serrated
or
what's
called
kirk
stem
points.
You
see
the
serrations
on
them,
they're
really
cutting
agents.
C
C
And
knives
here
are
some
more
examples
of
those
points.
Now
they
they
found
a
lot
of
fireplaces.
They
did
not
find
many
artifacts.
I
don't
know
how
much
that
did
cost,
but
you
can
imagine
my
fellow
taxpayers
has
got
to
be
some
of
the
most
expensive
artifacts
known
to
mankind,
but
there's
a
lot
of
good
knowledge
that
came
out
of
it.
In
fact,
here's
a
drill
you
see
the
base
on
here.
That's
a
that's
a
probably
a
lacroix.
That's
a
early
arcade
around
8
800
euro
point.
C
C
That's
what's
called
middle
middle
archaic
in
the
midwest
there
weren't
many
people
there
you
go
all
across
the
midwest
or
the
any
middle
arcade
sites
are
found
in
the
midwest.
It
was
a
very,
very
dry
period
called
the
isothermal.
In
fact,
the
ohio
river
probably
dried
up
during
summers.
At
that
time,
the
prairie
spread
all
the
way
from
illinois
in
through
indiana
into
ohio.
They
call
it
the
prairie
peninsula.
Yes,
that's
how
dry
it
was.
The
forest
couldn't
even
exist
at
all.
So
we
talk
about
climate
changes.
C
Now
there
were
really
tremendous
climate
changes
in
the
past
and
nobody
knows
exactly
why
that
happened,
they're
trying
to
figure
it
out,
but
it
was
a
major
major
climate
shift.
This
is
a
a
mound,
of
course,
the
big
conus
mountain
marietta
cemetery,
marietta
ohio.
This
is
one
of
the
best
examples
of
the
adena
mount
or
hopewell
mount
in
the
united
states,
and
we
did.
D
C
The
stall
collection,
of
course
we
have
a
good
representation
of
mount
builder
artifacts.
These
two
spearheads
were
found
on
blender
hassett
island.
These
are
not
utilitarian
type
spearheads.
These
are
called
robbins,
blades
or
late
adena.
They
date
to
about
the
time
of
christ,
and
no
doubt
they
came
from
mounds.
There
were
at
least
two
mounds
of
blender
household
and
we
do
not
know
where
they
were.
They
were
all
excavated
early
in
the
1800s.
C
So
that's
an
example
and
here's
another
example
of
point
types
he's
got
some
early
archaics.
These
are
called
lost
lake
points
they
date
around
9
000
years
ago,
but
the
majority
of
these
points
are
triangular.
These
are
true
arrowheads
and
we
have-
and
these
are
generally
from
what
they
call
the
fort
ancient
culture
which
existed
from
about
900
a.d
to
a
14
1500
a.d.
These
were
the
first
true
farmers,
corn
farmers
in
the
midwest
and
on
blender
hassell
island.
C
There's
a
tremendous
fort
ancient
site,
it's
right
in
the
middle
of
the
island,
it's
called
hasset
village
and
it
was
excavated
by
dave.
First,
he
did
an
exploratory
dig
on
the
site,
but
he
dug
clean
across.
It
was
a
big
huge
circular
village
and
all
the
houses
were
on
the
perimeter.
It
was
palisade,
they
had
it
fenced
in.
There
was
a
lot
of
warfare
at
that
time
in
the
middle
was
a
big
plaza,
and
that
was
the
community
center
religious
center.
C
C
He
found
four
burials
right
by
the
house
sites
next
to
the
palisade,
and
this
is
near
the
northern
edge
of
the
island
when
stahl
found
all
these
skeletons
with
the
necklaces
and
that
it
was
probably
from
this
graveyard,
because
it
does
impinge
right
on
the
bank
there.
So
in
the
old
days
it
was
probably
washing
it
out
these
graves
in
this
site.
Now,
there's
also
a
lot
of
grays
came
out
on
the
north
side,
which
I'll
touch
on
here
in
a
minute,
but
there
were
a
number
of
burials
here.
C
C
Now
a
lot
of
people
didn't
even
pay
attention
to
them,
but
he
even
knew
that
the
rim
shirts
were
the
most
important
markers
of
a
cultural
identification,
but
he
has
all
the
different
periods,
but
these
are
the
kinds
of
these
lugs.
These
are
handles
on
the
clay
rims,
and
these
are
the
ones
used
by
the
ford
ancient
people
and
these
products
came
from
that
site.
We,
I
just
showed
you
where
the
trenches
are,
but
there.
C
Types
of
pot
shards
here
as
well,
there's
some
middle
woodland
and
probably
some
later
in
the
middle
woodland.
There
is
some
medina
material
there,
as
well.
Now
on
the
north
side
of
the
island,
you
can
see
the
vertical
face.
They
raised
the
pool
level
with
about
30
years
in
the
ohio
river
by
10
feet.
When
that
happened,
a
lot
of
farmers
lost
a
lot
of
land
all
up
and
down
the
ohio.
C
In
fact,
there
was
a
farmer
in
indiana
was
suing
the
federal
government
because
losing
a
lot
of
his
property
to
the
floods,
but
he
hadn't
mapped
it
before
he
lost
his
case
because
he
didn't
have
the
initial
data
that
would
prove
him
right.
Well,
butter,
hassell
island.
We
were
losing
a
lot
of
material.
In
fact,
one
of
the
local
businesses
were
actually
dredging
out
the
ohio
river
for
gravel
he's,
essentially
dredging
out
the
islands,
because
once
you
dig
that
out
the
islands
cave
in
and
replenish
that
gravel
and
they
stopped
him
from
doing
that.
C
Humans
called
and
it
got
reported,
and
then
it
came
back
to
us
so
we
searched,
and
lo
and
behold
there
were
three
skeletons
showing
in
the
bank
here,
and
this
is
scott
speedy,
he's
the
archaeologist
at
the
moundsville
no
longer
there,
but
we
have
our
cultural
resource
center
in
west
virginia
is
at
moundsville
and
that's
where
we
curate
all
the
artifact
collections
in
in
west
virginia,
and
he
was
a
staff
archaeologist
there.
So
they
came
down
to
retrieve
the
skeletal
material
and
he's
cleaning
the
back
off.
Here
you
can
see
how
high
it
is.
C
You
can
imagine
what
kind
of
erosion
when
you
hit
a
flood
hits
this
wall
we're
losing
a
lot
of
the
island,
and
here
are
the
skeletal
materials
showing
coming
out
of
the
bank.
This
is
a
rib
cage
here
and
it's
probably
a
leg
bone.
Here
we
dug
back
in,
we
found
the
skull
and
there
were
three
barrels.
The
original
burial
was
an
infant
a
baby,
so
they
retrieved
that
material
and
took
it
up
for
for
curation
and
possible
repatriation
of
the
milestone.
C
C
C
C
And
one
of
the
things
we
wanted
to
find
the
james
blockhouse,
but
we
were
also
looking
behind
the
mansion.
They
had
a
formal
garden
in
that
area
called
a
pleasure
garden.
They
hired
a
british
gardener
and
it
was
well
known
at
that
time,
so
we're
trying
to
find
the
features
of
that
garden
without
having
to
escalate
a
lot
of
material.
C
This
is
jared
burks
from
ohio
valley,
our
consultants
and
he's
walking
the
area
with
a
magnetometer
and
he'll
walk
a
grid,
it's
all
computerized
and
he
can
measure
down
to
around
the
six
feet
down
any
soil.
That's
disturbed
or
burned
in
that
you'll
see
on
the
maps.
So
you
can
walk
over
an
area
and
not
have
to
excavate
and
see
the
high
points
where
you
want
to
dig.
If
you
ever
want
a
dig
if
they
had
fires
in
that
the.
B
C
Thing
you
use
is
the
ground
penetrating
radar
and
that's
a
complementary
device,
and
you
can
see
also
differences
in
soils
with
that
device.
It
goes
pretty
deep
too,
so
you
can
combine
the
magnetometry
data
with
the
gpr
data,
the
ground,
penetrating
radar
and
learn
an
awful
lot
about
what's
under
the
ground
before
you
actually
have
to
dig
and
of
course,
he's
got
the
old
transit
here
and
that's
the
leica
transit
and
it's
got
his
gps
in
it.
That's
accurate
to
about
two
feet,
so
you
can
take
readings.
C
Take
a
gps
reading
plus
pound
your
stakes
in
the
ground.
So
it's
a
very
accurate
way
of
doing
your
mapping
and
jared's
done
a
lot
of
workforce
out
there,
both
with
the
transit
net
and
he's
done
a
tremendous
job.
For
us.
There
was
a
lot
of
archaeology
on
the
island,
but
it
was
not
very
well
recorded.
C
C
C
C
C
Like
to
talk
about
this
is
around
the
mansion
area.
Here
you
have
the
the
blender
asset
mansion
that
has
two
outlier
buildings
and
here's
the
main
mansion
here
in
the
portico,
and
this
is
a
lane
coming
up.
This
is
looking
towards
parkersburg
here
to
the
east.
This
gray
area
is
the
magnetometry
at
data.
C
Now
jerry
can
look
at
that
and
tell
a
lot.
You
know
I
can
at
least
tell
this
right
here.
We
have
a
martin
house,
a
big
steel
pole.
If
you
have
any
steel,
the
magnetometer
goes
crazy.
So
that's
a
that's
a
pole
about
this
big
round,
but
that's
what
it
does
to
the
data,
but
these
sites.
Here
you
see
collections
of
metal,
and
here
we
know
that
was
a
broom
factory
and
here's
a
foundation
of
something
and
I'll
get
to
that
a
little
bit
later.
C
But
we
found
in
this
area
at
least
three
probably
foundations
and
structures-
and
this
is
a
formal
garden
area-
went
back
to
this
road.
It
was
two
and
a
third
acres
that
was
a
big
garden.
They
had
serpentis
paths
in
it,
they
had
a
fish
pond.
They
had
summer
houses
which
are
in
terms
tournaments
gazebos
and
we're
trying
to
find
all
that
up
in
this
area.
The
ohio
river
is
right
here
and,
of
course
this
goes
around
the
island
here,
but
we
were
looking
for
any
lanes.
C
There
was
a
supposedly
a
lane
from
the
river
to
the
mansion
from
the
north
shore
right
here,
and
dr
swick
has
always
been
wanting
to
find
exactly
where
that
was
now.
This
is
a
map
of
the
hot
spots
that
he
found
with
his
magnetometry
survey.
Here's
the
mansion
again!
This
is
a
formal
garden
area.
Here
is
the
gazebo.
It
could
possibly
be
a
gazebo,
but
here
are
some
two
other
locations
of
possible
foundations
of
buildings.
C
The
red
are
buildings
that
were
here
years
ago
that
we
know
from
aerial
photographs,
old
maps
they're
no
longer
there.
The
black
are
extent
buildings
that
we
have
today,
and
this
is
a
putnam
hauser
house
that
was
the
putnam
house.
It
was
in
delphi,
ohio.
We
have
it
on
the
island.
Now
it
was
finished
in
182.
They
were.
C
C
Now
one
of
the
features
they
found
in
the
garden
area
in
the
past
excavations
were
these
stone
crips
and
nobody
knows
what
they're
used
for
they're
right
behind
the
mansion,
but
what
they
think
they
were.
These
are
orangeries,
they
have
a
little
greenhouse
above
them,
they
think
they
may
have
thrown
manure
in
these
to
keep
it
warm
early
in
the
spring
when
they're
sprouting
their
seedlings
for
their
garden
and
they
had
a
working
garden
just
south
of
the
placer
garden
where
they
actually
grew
their
their
food.
C
And
jared
now
this
these
are
the
plots,
the
data
from
the
ground,
penetrating
radar
and
each
of
these,
like
a
tomograph
like
he's
slicing
through,
like
you,
take
a
cat
scan
and
you
can
see
he
goes
down
down
all
of
a
sudden
he's
looking
for
the
lane
from
the
river
to
the
house,
all
sudden,
you
start
seeing
this
come
through
at
a
certain
depth.
He
is
finding
evidence
of
a
lane
or
some
soil
feature,
and
this
is
what
he
thinks
he's
found.
C
C
The
blender
has
this:
we've
never
found
a
plan
for
the
mansion
in
the
77.
They
did
find
the
foundation
for
the
mansion,
so
they
knew
exactly
where
it
was
what
size
it
was
that
type
of
thing,
but
there
were
never
any
plans
of
the
match
and
nobody
ever
painted
or
drew
that
mansion.
When
it
was
in
existence,
they
moved
in
in
1800
at
least
10
11
it
burned
to
the
ground.
It
was
no
longer
there,
so
it
was
a
shame.
B
C
C
For
example,
we
wanted
to
dig
that
a
gazebo
we
had
several
estimates
made
to
what
it
would
cost.
I
think
about
three
two
by
two
meters
squares
and
fifty
five
thousand
dollars.
That's
a
lot
of
money,
so
we'll
have
to
look
for
grants
and
that
type
of
thing
to
extend
our
work
now
right
behind
the
putnam
hauser
house.
Was
this
signature
with
a
magnetometer
and
that's
a
heavily
burned
area?
You
know
it
was
very.
C
And
the
blender
has
us
had
a
dairy
farm,
we
said
well,
that's
their
dairy
barn
and
they
also
had
slaves
and
workers.
They
had
cabins
behind
the
mansion,
so
we're
looking
for
all
those
foundations.
So
we
found
this.
So
it's
we're
going
to
dig
there
and
we
got
it.
We
got
did
get
a
grant
and
this
is
the
outline
of
it.
So
we
excavated
that
site
and
here's
the
putnam
hauser
house
and
here's
the
excavation
site
right
here
and
we
dug
and
we
found
a
lot
of
burned
earth
and
you
can
see
heavy
heavy
burning.
C
So
if
you
have
burned
earth
that
magnetometer
just
shouts
out,
it's
really
a
good
sign.
We
got
into
it
and
found
out.
We
were
actually
in
a
post,
blender
old
barn.
They
torn
down
a
little
bar
in
there
and
probably
build
those
up
there
and
burned
it.
So
we
got
halfway
in
here.
We
don't
want
to
stay
here
any
longer.
C
C
But
it
did
serve
a
good
purpose.
We
did
find
some
prehistoric
material
one
spearhead,
and
then
we
had
the
school
groups
coming
through
so
part
of
the
job
and
this
crew.
This
jared
burke's
outfit
they're
really
good
about
with
children
and
teachers.
So
we
had
teachers
out
there,
so
they
would
tell
them
exactly
what
to
do.
We
had
some
high
school
students
came
out
and
we
needed
some
screeners
and
boy
they
just
loved
it.
They
spent
the
whole
day.
C
It's
a
benefit
to
everybody.
This
is
what
it
was.
This
was
what
they
called
a
long
barn.
It
was
built
during
a
civil
war.
It
was
torn
down
in
the
in
the
60s,
but
it
was
a
long
barn
and
that's
probably
what
they
build,
those
out
and
burn,
and
there
were
bricks
and
everything
else
there.
This
is
part
of
the
foundation
of
that.
This
is
a
putnam
hauser
house
here,
but
this
is
part
of
the
old
foundation
back.
Here
is
where
they
shoved
it
and
burned
it
up.
C
The
island
that
was
really
fascinating
to
us,
and
that
was
the
neil
house
area.
I
showed
you
the
ruin.
This
picture
was
taken
in
1939
and
you
see
the
neil
house,
and
this
was
taken
from
the
bluff
in
west
virginia.
Here's,
the
ohio
river,
the
west
virginia
side
and
here's
the
ohio
river
on
the
ohio
side
and
one
of
the
famous
features
of
blender
hasselhoff
was
this
mammoth
sycamore
tree?
C
It
was
claimed
that,
when
the
pioneers
hidden
there
from
the
indians,
you
know
you
heard
that
story
and
people
couldn't
even
live
in
it,
but
it
was
a
monster
sycamore
tree
and
here's
a
new
house.
So
we
wanted
to
find
this
site,
but
also
we
wanted
to
find
the
james
blockhouse
where
the
blender
has
to
live
and
it
turned
out
when
the
niels
built
their
house
in
1833.
C
They
lived
in
the
block
house
as
well
and
between
times
both
slaves
and
workers
lived
in
the
block
house.
We'd
really
like
to
find
it
there's
been
a
lot
of
references
to
it,
but
nobody
knows
exactly
where
it
is
now.
We
have
a
sign,
there's
a
lane
coming
here.
Now
we
have
a
sign
here
that
this
is
the
location
of
the
james
block
house,
so
we
did
a
lot
of
magnetomicron
around
this
area.
This
is
what's
left
of
the
new
house.
When
we
took
it
over
as
a
park,
the
house
was
really
into
shambles.
C
D
C
End
of
the
island,
here's
the
lane,
you
take
the
horse
ride.
You
go
right
through
this
lane
here.
Here's
another
view:
here's
the
lane
coming
down,
but
you
can
see
there's
a
slope
here
towards
the
west
virginia
shore.
We
thought
the
block
house
would
be
right
in
this
area
and
the
magnetometer
showed
a
lot
of
features
there.
I'll
show
you
that
data
in
a
minute
so.
C
C
Here's
the
lane
the
present
day
lane
the
new
house
is
right
here.
You
see
these
features
here.
These
are
all
fence
lines,
a
lot
of
plow
scarves,
and
this
is
an
old
lane
that
we
uncovered
we
didn't
where
it
was
there,
and
you
see
these
dark
spots.
These
are
features.
These
are
cultural
features
and
we
thought
these
dark
spots
here.
They'd
be
a
perfect
place
for
blockhouse.
It's
got
a
little
bit
of
promontory
of
land
there.
C
You
see
some
other
large
features
here,
and
this
one
feature
here
is
probably
where
the
old
sycamore
was
so.
We
started
excavating
this
area
here,
and
these
are
the
hot
spots.
This
is
a
prehistoric
village.
I
walked
there
and
I
found
a
triangular
rocket
and
there's
a
lot
of
flint
ship
each
in
there,
but
the
island
is
just
so
full
of
cultural
material.
C
This
is
a
maintenance
shed
and
they
when
they
built
it,
they
looked
at
five
different
areas
in
the
island.
They
would
do
a
little
bit
of
spading
before
they
put
it
down.
They
didn't
want
to
disturb
any
cultural
materials.
They
had
to
move
five
different
locations
before
they
could
find
a
location
where
they
weren't
finding
indian
artifacts
or
something
else.
It
was
a
very,
very
rich
area
and
I'll
talk
a
little
bit.
There
was
a
field
right
here
and
I
did
have
that
plowed
and
hunted
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
about
that.
B
C
B
C
And
he's
inspecting
it
expert
opinion,
but
here's
one
of
those
features
we
got
into
it.
It
was
not
historic,
it
was
prehistoric,
it
was
middle
woodland,
hopewell
non-builder
period.
We
found
a
couple
of
projectile
points
in
it,
so
we
just
sectioned
one
quarter
of
it.
Then
we
buried
it
back
up.
This
wasn't
our
objective
so
that
most
that
feature
still
lies
there.
C
Here's
a
picture
of
that
slope
again.
We
thought
it
would
be
up
here
so
jared's
boss
says:
well,
let's
do
shovel
testing,
so
we
did
all
kinds
of
shovel
testing
on
the
higher
piece
of
ground,
but
we
extended
the
shovel
testing
down
the
slope
and
it
was
the
luckiest
thing
they
ever
did
when
they
got
down.
They
found
this.
This
is
a
fireplace.
This
is
a
historic,
fireplace,
heavily
fired.
You
can
see
the
red
on
it
here.
It
was
down
the
slope.
C
We
would
expect
a
block
house
to
be
up
in
the
higher
ground
and
we
think
this
is
probably
the
fireplace
to
the
block
house.
We
found
over
5000
pieces
of
broken
china,
and
the
china
was
all
away
from
the
finest
english
and
chinese
china
all
the
way
to
redwater.
So
you
have
to
blend
our
houses
living
in
the
neil's
living
and
you
have
slaves
living
in
there.
You've
got
workers
living
there,
so
you
have
the
whole
gamut
of
the
pottery
china.
In
that
we
also
find
a
lot
of
brass
and
bronze
pieces.
C
We
don't
even
know
what
some
of
the
stuff
is.
It's
very
fondly
wrought
and
so
jared's
been
doing
a
lot
of
research
on
it
and
he's
going
to
come
out
with
a
mammoth
report,
hopefully
soon
once
we
get
that,
then
we'll
apply
for
more
grants.
Now,
as
always,
two
days
before
we
quit
the
dig,
we
did
find
a
white
line
it
out
this
way
in
this
way.
C
Generally,
these
block
houses
do
not
leave
much
of
a
signature
a
lot
of
times,
they're
built
right
on
the
ground
with
logs,
and
sometimes
they
just
have
stones
at
the
corners.
They
would
build
a
block
off
on
a
stone.
Once
the
black
house
was
gone,
they'd
use
the
stones
for
another
building,
so
we
were
having
a
devil
over
time,
trying
to
find
any
outline
of
a
building.
Well,
this
white
line
was
where
the
wall
would
probably
would
have
been
now.
We
know
the
blender
has
just
remodeled
it.
It
wasn't
big
enough
for
them.
C
They
put
a
frame
addition
to
it
and
I'm
just
wondering
if
that
white
line
isn't
whitewashed,
that
washed
off
the
walls
and
stained
the
soil
a
lot
of
times.
You
know
black
holes,
they
did
not
have
gutters
and
they
dug
a
lot
in
the
greenberry
valley
in
west
virginia,
the
mcbride's
husband
and
wife
team
and.
C
C
House
we're
waiting
for
the
report
and
then
we'll
try
to
get
some
funding
to
do
more
excavating
on
it.
But
you
know
it's
down
slope,
but
it
makes
sense.
In
those
days
the
river
was
not
dammed
up,
and
so
the
pool
level
on
the
ohio
river
was
a
lot
much
lower
than
just
a
day
at
least
10
to
20
feet
lower.
So
this
is
still
high
ground
and
they
wanted
to
build
close
to
the
river
for
the
water
source.
C
C
C
A
great
we
had
a
great
time
and
we
hope
to
get
back
again
now
I
mentioned
they
plowed
a
few.
They
were
going
to
put
a
native
prairie
in
the
island.
They
did
that.
So
I
had
this
one
section:
the
triangular
section
of
the
field,
and
if
you
look
here,
I'm
looking,
this
is
a
new
house
right
here.
I'm
looking
down
the
slope
where
that
fireplace
is
right
here,
so
why
don't
you
plow
that
ground
rain
on
it?
C
I'd
like
to
peace,
plot
it
go
out
and
find
artifacts
see
what
we
can
find,
and
so
it
was
a
good
day,
and
this
is
what
was
plowed
out
and
I
walked
it
after
a
couple
of
rains
and
peace
plotted
everything.
But
what
we
have
here
is
a
china
wear
the
new
period.
We
have
glass
a
lot
of
glass,
a
lot
of
it's
old,
it's
patinated.
C
C
But
it's
hard
to
type
because
it
doesn't
have
any
notching
on
it
here.
You
have
the
triangular
points
from
the
later
period,
so
we
have
a
gamut
of
artifacts
right
there
in
the
plow
zone
and
here's
a
black
blade
so
true
to
form.
I
was
kind
of
surprised
to
find
that
mature
near
the
surface,
but
most
was
fairly
late
and
you
have
to
go
much
deeper
to
find
the
really
early
stuff.
But
it's
it's
out
there.
I
have
seen
collections
that
people
hunted
when
it
was
farmed.
The
entire.
B
C
C
They
were
probably
destroyed
or
fire
or
sold,
but
fortunately
somebody
copied
these
people.
We
don't
know
who
they
were.
They
were
native
americans
who
probably
lived
in
or
right
very
near
the
island
and
I'm
sure
the
blender
has
to
snow
them,
and
I
know
there
was
a
delaware
indians
in
the
area.
So
it's
really
engaging
portraits.
There
are
a
couple
of
these,
but
you
can
put
you
see
the
old
void
faces,
and
these
are
pictures
of
some
of
the
native
americans.
Our
pioneer
brothers
and
sisters
lived.
B
C
A
C
Museum
is
open
all
year,
so
it's
worth
a
visit
as
well
and,
of
course
we
have
a
lot
of
historic
material
when
they
excavated
the
mansion
site.
There's
a
lot
of
artifacts
in
the
museum
from
the
mansion
site.
You
see
little
door
knobs
and
keys.
That
type
of
thing,
that's
a
lot.
I'd,
be
glad
to
ask
any
questions
you
might
have,
but
thanks
for
having
me
appreciate.
B
C
B
C
Okay,
let's
take
a
look
at
now
dupont
right
now:
they're
putting
new
water
lines
in
there,
they're
renovating
their
water
lines
in
the
western
island.
So
the
you
know,
army
corps
of
engineers.
You
have
to
hire
an
archaeologist,
so
they're
doing
a
survey
down
there.
I
think
they
dug
300
shovel
test
pits
and
they
found
artifacts
about
every
one
of
them
and
so
dupont's
wondering
what
they're
gonna
they
did
it
when
they
first
put
the
water
lines
in
the
grass
jeff
graybill
was
the
archaeologist
at
that
time
and
they
asked
him
four
feet
down.
C
C
The
land,
that's
part,
now
what
we've
done.
I
was
going
to
mention
that
I'm
glad
you
mentioned
that
we
rip-rap
the
whole
island
and
with
the
army
corps
of
engineers,
it's
longitudinal
because
they're
putting
stone
kind
of
like
little
dams
along
parallel
to
the
shore
and
when
the
banks
cave
in,
they
just
filled
in
that
that
area
down
there.
So
these
steep
banks
are
probably
going
to
be
a
thing
of
the
past,
eventually
they're
working,
very
well,
you
can
see
the
soil
collecting
behind
them
and
it's
also
good
for
wildlife.
C
C
Yes,
yes
right,
so
is
that
illumio?
Yes,
there's
all
alluviation
yeah!
That's
what
you
see
in
the
river
valleys
I
mentioned.
You
know
in
the
plowzone
up
in
the
upland
areas.
You
see
all
cultural
appearances.
You
know
eight
to
twelve
inches
down
with
the
river
valleys.
You
have
the
alluviations
here
these
deeply
buried
sites.
C
Now
in
illinois
there
was
a
koster
site
near
the
illinois
river
valley
and
they
dug
down,
I
think
gee
I
think
30
feet
down,
but
they
just
went
through
layer
after
layer,
material
and
those
are
wonderful
sights
and
one
of
the
more
famous
ones
was
in
saint
albans,
west
virginia
and
saint
albans
along
the
kanawha
river,
and
they
excavated
at
least
18
feet
down.
At
that
point,
then
they
reached
the
water
table,
couldn't
go
any
lower,
but
they
found
level
at
the
level
of
cultural
material.
C
They
find
these
fire
plates
and
they'd
have
the
diagnostic
arrows
or
the
spear
points
with
the
fire
with
the
charcoal,
so
they
were
able
to
date
a
lot
of
these
early
rk
point
types
very
accurately
with
radio
carbon
dating
and
that's
one
of
the
first
sites
that
they
really
did.
That
very
well,
so
you
really
get
a
cultural
sequence
of
point
types
with
ages.
Now
these
point
types
now,
professor
stahl,
is
really
onto
something.
C
When
you
see
these
point
types,
these
styles
were
in
existence,
maybe
a
few
hundred
years,
maybe
a
little
bit
longer
in
some
cases.
But
if
I
find
a
point
type
and
I
look
at
it
and
any
archaeologist
looked
at,
you
can
date
that
within
100
years,
based
on
that,
all
that
work,
that's
been
done
by
radiocarbon
dating
these
different,
particularly
the
later
the
stratified
sites,
and
it's
it's
a
very
valuable
tool
to
have
we've
excavated
a
couple
of
archaic
sites
or
we
had
a
chat
for
the
western
archaeological
society
there.
C
In
parkersburg,
we
dug
two
sites
right
in
the
city
of
parkersburg.
One
was
a
early
arcade.
It's
a
9500
year
old
site,
where
the
first
lowest
store
went
in
right
off
memorial
bridge
there,
and
then
we
excavated
a
bluff
type
above
mar
town
and
if
you
go
into
parkersburg
you'll,
see
the
bluff
up
there.
You
see
all
these
big
office
buildings
off
the
right
there,
the
right
below
a
little
canal
river
enters
the
ohio
river,
whereas
a
tremendous
site
on
that
bluff
top
it
was
about
4
500
site.
C
C
C
Well,
there's
a
big
gamut
of
them,
but
you
go
to
clovis
and
well
there's
a
book
by
a
null
justice
and
he's
a
university
indiana
book.
And
if
you
really
want
to
type
your
points,
that's
the
book
together.
He
did
a
really
nice
job,
but
he
shows
the
different
types,
the
ages,
the
areas
they're
from
and
that
type
of
thing.
But
you
have
the
clovis
and
then
you
go
into
what
they
call
the
it's
a
paleo
period.
Then
you
go
into
a
very
early
earlier
cake.
C
Extinct,
bison
antiquities,
which
is
an
extinct
bison
today,
so
they're
hunting
them.
You
find
those
ag
basic
points
in
this
area.
I
found
several
of
them
are
uncirculable
on
the
site
and
then
you
get
in
the
early
arcades
the
notch
point
types
and
these
notch
points.
Actually
you
see
a
lot
of
them
in
in
siberia
and
the
early
points
in
north
america
were
not
notched.
They
were
lancelot
shaped.
There
are
these
clovis
types
or
you
get
an
aggravation
or
ovoid
shape,
so
notch
points
come
in.
Nobody
knows
for
sure.