Sherry Chandler
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Ive been reading a little paperback, hardly more than a pamphlet, put out by the Kentucky Archaeological Survey . The booklet deals with the Adena people who lived in Kentucky about 2,500 years ago. These semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers were the moundbuilders, ancestors of the Native Americans who were here when Europeans arrived. Their life sounds idyllic. They lived in small clan groups, grew gardens in the summertime, wore copper jewelry, and wove brightly-dyed fabrics made of plant fibers from milkweed and rattlesnake master and the inner bark of the cedar and pawpaw trees. They used engraved stone to print complex decorative designsPossibly related posts:
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