Ohio's First Peoples art of soul silverware

silverware

Marietta's Lean Years

Keener and C

FORT ANCIENT'S PREHISTORIC PLANT RESTORATIONS

The focused archaeological studies described in Transitions: Archaic and Early Woodland Research in the Ohio Country shed light on this important episode in human cultural development

Ohio's First Peoples art of soul silverwareAlthough founders of the state like Rufus Putnam pointed to the remaining prehistoric earthworks at Marietta as evidence that the architects were a people of ingenuity, industry, and elegance, their words did not prevent a rivalry with the areas Indian inhabitants that was settled only through decades of warfare and treaty making. Native American armies managed to win battles with Josiah Harmar and Arthur St. Clair, but not the war with Anthony Wayne.