Oh yes very good, just for your information I’m from Mercer county, Pennsylvania bordering Ohio, just a hour trip straight up from Lake Erie. So you can research the many native Indian tribes we’ve had, I try to respect sacred grounds, mounds etc. however walking the shorelines when the man made lake goes down opens up so many possibilities that otherwise would never be seen, so thankyou I’m learning from you, thankyou
I've lost track of some former native trail maps....(Killed a computer with info on it , and am not tech savvy...)
While many trails are paved today , which tells much of their being well chosen originally , some just faded.
One major trail ran W-E below Mi.. Others intersected it of course depending on destinations. They flourished though.
A archeological book at a flea market from out East , had content from Michigan (my state) that combined with other documents presented some interesting ties I never did figure out.
Mounds about ten minutes from me (and I too stay clear of them) were studied by a college. Mounds near them were studied by another group.
None declared any burials. But...One had a "hearth" best defined as simply a fire pit. And it had multiple different style arrowheads.
Heads being unique to different "schools" more than era of age.
I'm aware of some being buried in sand under a fire to heat treat/temper them. But varied representations of different nations/tribes so to speak stuck with me.
They were together. Not layered as in historic occupation..
Another documentation was of a site about a hundred and thirty-fifty miles away.
It showed evidence of a pole wall. Fire reflector, wind, break , screen, lean-to , or defensive reason
I quit puzzling about why a single wall when mention was made of varied style points found in the same layer of varied type groups/nations.
All sites were tied by riverine areas and routes.
The Northernmost (and certainly not the Northernmost sites existing) ended at a rapids that ran for 30 miles.
The lowest where two rivers joined. Neither remarkable or uncommon chosen sites to occupy by whatever season for however long.
But neither near any more permanent village sites.
History varies. But even before Euro influence there were certain groups controlling trade /activities in their domains.
So you couldn't just go anywhere at will and conduct business.
Then there was customary/traditional versions of war depending on alliances.
I've long wondered if those points from varied areas didn't represent varied groups or representatives performing a unity of sorts ceremony at varied areas of their range.
Not sure what else to make of it...
