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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by ColonialWoman[/i] [br]Since it's so near the movie site, I thought some of you who have visited the Morganton area would be interested to know that once again Warren Wilson College is doing an archaeological study of a 16th century Native American town on a tributary of the Catawba River. They began the study in 1986. Here is what it says on their website: "Our goals this year are to expose one entire structure, to excavate selected squares within another to assess the nature of floor deposits (to plan for excavating these structures in their entirety), to uncover contiguous areas within the arc formed by the four confirmed structures (to expose and excavate pits and postholes), and to conduct excavations south of the mound to learn more about what that part of the town looked like during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Our recent finds have convinced us that this site was the center of a native chiefdom as early as the 1400s and that it is the place where Spaniards built a fort and colonial outpost in the 1560s. The native people called their town "Joara." Members of the Spanish expedition that built Fort San Juan at this native town called their own settlement "Cuenca." If you would like to know more, go to http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~arch/fs2003/main.html I am happy to say that I am working on the dig and finding it fascinating. [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.