Mound Country    Maslowski suddenly picked up something from a
furrow and handed it to me. I could see it was a flint
arrowpoint, less than two inches long, flatter on one side than
the other, and unevenly shaped, but it wasn’t until Bob said
“Early Adena” that I realized I was holding a true prehistoric
artifact in my hand, one that had been crafted by the Adena
Indians hundreds of years before Christ and at least twenty
centuries before Europeans set foot in this part of America.
Maslowski, an archeologist with the Army Corps of Engineers,
explained that recently plowed fields were fertile grounds for
finding prehistoric Indian artifacts. From time to time he would
stop to pick up a fire-cracked rock, evidence of an ancient
campsite, or to point out a grayish patch in the soil caused by
the high ash content of prehistoric debris, probably mussel
shells.  Elaborate earthworks engineered two thousand years ago
by an impenetrably mysterious people still stand in astonishing
abundance throughout the Ohio River