Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park is hosting a Knap-In, a “3-day celebration of Flintknapping, Atlatl, and Stone Age Skills”, this weekend, May 4, 5, and 6, at 732 Stone Fort Drive, Manchester, Tennessee. They’ll also have basket weaving and other native crafts. For more information please contact the park office at 931-723-5073 or email keith.wimberley@tn.gov. Old Stone [...]
May 042012
Dr. Kevin E. Smith, director of anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University, will give a lecture on the Glass Mounds during a meeting of the Middle Cumberland Archaeological Society (MCAS) on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7 pm. The meeting will be held at Clover Bottom Mansion, located at 2941 Lebanon Pike in Nashville. The mounds were [...]
On April 2, 1781, during the Native American war of resistance against the occupation of Middle Tennessee by a young United States of America, a force led by the great Cherokee war leader Dragging Canoe attacked Fort Nashboro, the founding site of the city of Nashville, located on a bluff overlooking the Cumberland River. The fight [...]
The Glass Mounds cleanup work has continued over the last few weeks. Since my last post the East mound has been sown with grass seed by Mark Norton, thanks to a personal donation from Tennessee state archaeologist Mike Moore. Chipping of the small trees and brush cut on the site continued the past two weekends, [...]
Mar 212012
A bald eagle interpretive program will be presented on Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the Shiloh Battlefield Visitor Center. An eagle pair has nested at Shiloh since 2007 and have since successfully raised four eaglets on the battlefield. Each year as the size of the nest increased, it became more difficult to observe nest activity [...]
We worked on the West Mound today. We had 8 people, the weather was great again and we continued to make good progress. We had a chipper, thanks to Glenn Christman of the Gentle Arborist Landscaping Company, and continued chipping the brush that had been cut previously. Here is today’s crew. Their help is truly appreciated: Copyright © [...]
We continued working on the East Mound today. We had 8 people, the weather was about perfect and we made good progress. Here is a shot of the (approximately) north facing slope after we stopped for the day. This was taken at about the same spot as the after photo in last weeks post. The [...]
In recent days, I’ve recieved countless e-mails and Facebook posts about archaeological issues that continue to cause great controversy. At the forefront are two Television shows that to professional archaeologists, promote the destruction of archaeological resources by amateur metal detector hobbyists. This recent article stands at the heart of all I believe about what responsible archaeology is all about. In [...]
Feb 262012
Ancient mounds’ future rests upon easement
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Today we worked on the eastern Glass Mound, the smaller one. We started about 10:30 am and stopped around 3:15 pm. We had four to six people there throughout the day. Mark and the crew had already spent a day working on it previously and had cleared enough that you could actually see it while [...]
The Glass Mounds is a Woodland Period archaeological site consisting of two existing Native American burial mounds near Franklin, Tennessee. One or both of the mounds were impacted by excavations in the 19th and possibly early 20th centuries, and the surrounding area was heavily mined for phosphates in the mid-20th century. The mounds have also been the [...]
