My old arrowhead collecting site at the Etowah River

[jamesp]

There are 5 camps on this large field surrounded by the river(north of the 4 lane). Two of them are next to the fish weirs.

Fish weirs ?? Look to the lower left and lower right of the screen and you will see the ancient's fish weir.

There are a couple of more weirs if you slide the map around. If the soil was wet you could see the slight charcoal stains in the soil the ancients left.

goo.gl/maps/UpSMi

You can zoom in on the above image to get a closer view like this

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[Fossilman]

Cool,love snooping around old Indian camps..........always come up with some goodies..

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sweet, it seems north is mucked up on both links. fish weir opposite each other. Freaked me out for a minute!

[garock]

Interesting mr james !

[jamesp]

The fish weir in the 2nd link has a plowed down mound(s) and the broken projectiles added up to over 300 on the left side camp just above the weir. Not one of them matched up. This was a classic woodland site ave 1500 -2000 years ago according to the educated. I found human teeth in the plowed rows. Some one spread the graves out when the graded the mound out.
The other weir downstream is of a completely newer group. Much fewer spear points, many bird points and flint plow/digging tools. Both weirs have dense black walnut stands. Most likely seedlings grown out from the ancients.
All private land. Used to have the gate open all the time. I romped all over that place 25 years ago. There was five 1-2 acre camps around that bow in the river. Each with darker softer sweet smelling soil and each with percussion flaked chips.
The area in the bow is about 400 acres. Mostly planted in cotton or corn. Always went in cold weather after the crops were plowed in and the rains washed the goodies off.

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I love that you call them "the ancients". It just seems so.. I dunno... respectful. Like calling an older gentleman/woman "Sir" or "Ma'am". I like it.

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can you still fish the weirs like they did? Ya know, with spears?

[jamesp]

Probably. There are many more weirs there. Those are the high water weirs. As the river drops there is another labyrinth of weirs. Namely, one about 300 yards upstream(north) that must have been
a big game crossing because we found all the whole spears up there and less camp debitage. That was the sexiest occupation location i ever hunted artifacts at. If you notice the big weir: i believe those are put rock crossings above and below the weir. Notice the large house/swimming pool on east bank. It was built on top of very dense camp there too. It all made sense and was a user friendly site. Plenty of flint cobbles in the river. If you go to the west a mile or two you will find another camel hump in the river. And on the down river side of that hump i see a shallow water weir there. Hard to see cause that is high water in this image. The boys probably hiked over there to catch during low water and to get away from the old lady and hook up w/.....just kidding.
I have never seen any archeological works on this neighborhood. I think it is very advanced.

The weirs probably have too many breaks unless you catch water just right. I would use a fish call just kidding.

[grayfingers]

That is very interesting. I would love to work on a dig of such a site.

[jamesp]

I stopped by there w/kap and it was gated off. The house next to the gate was waving us on-to leave.LOL
I took him 2 miles east to several spots to find this material which covers a wide area(i had posted this before)
www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157635350617772