Archaeologists dig in the earth—not
to find valuable artifacts, but to learn how people
lived in the past. Most objects uncovered in digs
have little or no monetary value. Their true value
comes from what they teach us about the lives of
those who proceded us as inhabitants of the region.
This
replica of a typcial archaeological dig in the
Chattahoochee River Valley shows a cross-section
of a platform mound from the Mississippian
Period dating roughly from A.D. 1,000 to approximately
1,500. Several such mounds have been excavated
in the Valley, a region which supported flourishing
Indian civilizations for thousands of years. |
