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[sandlanders]

March 2, 2007.  It was just discussed last week, bartrod…

Oh, you mean the “civilization” site that you and Birdin’ were discussing, not the drivel site.   😉

[sandlanders]

Happy Birthday to CTQ today!  And if you want to know how old she is, the answer is blowin’ in the wind!  (Hint:  She’s older than drivel but younger than copper culture…)

[Trekkin and Birdin]

In answer to bartrod’s question….we just got back from there a little while ago.  The mounds are not very obvious, but the view is pretty spectacular.  This area was explored over a period of years from 2010 to 2015, I believe.  The clincher for the Cahokia transplants theory is the fact that some of the pottery shards recovered were dated to Cahokia, so about 1000 years.  Working theory is they brought some things along.  There is a new display at Perrot that we explored last fall, and I think they had replicas of some of the artifacts displayed there.  The local library also has a display based on that dig.  They also recovered various artifacts at river level, in what are now neighborhoods.  It’s a pretty interesting little trail.

If they did arrive in dugout canoes, that’s a journey of over 500 miles…upstream!  I’m impressed.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Monday night’s winds have officially been designated a tornado touchdown around here.  It was on the ground for about four minutes before pulling up just south of where we live.  An area family’s farm was damaged severely, but no one was hurt.  The barn, which has been around since 1895….gone.  Flattened.

[bartrod]

I found info on the web…apparently not a Copper Culture site like the one in Oconto. The mounds in Perrot date to the more recent Hopewell culture but there appear to be many sites in the area that date all the way back to the paleo era. Mound building didn’t occur until the Woodland and Oneota eras though. Copper Culture Mounds State Park was misnamed cuz there’s no mounds here…the Copper Culture predated mound building, pottery making, bows and arrows, and agriculture.  There certainly must have been trading with the Copper Culture at some point though if copper artifacts were discovered in your area. Interesting….glad you mentioned it.

Happy Bday CTQ…hope you didn’t get blown away by the occasion 🙂

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[amita17]

Happy birthday, Chatauqua560!

[amita17]

Bookends–the LTP and now the FTP.

[amita17]

Turkey (3 in a row).

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Today I worked at the Habitat storage space, helping to build storage/shelving for the paint supplies.  In the process, I learned how to build a wall…but I don’t know who’s paying for it.  😉

Ba da BOOM!

[wi_pattymel]

Turkey Hunter, night off of work, what to do?

 

[bartrod]

Spoiling the grandkids for the first time in more than a month.:)

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[The Happy Hodag!]

Unlucky post #13 on this page.  Rod, that’s what grandparents are for, spoil the kids rotten and send them back home to mom and dad.

The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.

Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.

[JimandLinda]

FTP for Saturday the 11th.

[The Happy Hodag!]

Jim and Linda might have been First to Post for Saturday. . .

The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.

Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.

[The Happy Hodag!]

. . .but I’m First to Post on Page 768.

 

-The Happy Hodag!

The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.

Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.

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