Archaeology of Ohio (Classic Reprint)

During this centennial year ofO hio, the attention of its citizens will be generally directed to its past. The State is remarkable for the number and extent of its earthworks, no spot of equal size on the globe having so many and so extensive monuments of earth. Whether one stands on the grounds of the Agricultural Society, in Licking County, inside the thirty-acre circle, with its high walls shutting out all view of modern civilization, and remembers that this was only one of many works extending tor miles in more than one direction ;whether, as happened to me last summer, he spends three and a half hours clambering along the steep embankments ofF ort A ncient, or whether he reads in books alone of these and various wonderful works, remembering again that there are over ten thousand mounds in theS tate, he will bo alike amazed at such and so many remains left by a race so far unknown that it can as yet simply 1)0 styled The Mound Builders. The interest has been romantic, and the temptation, in absence of evidence, to exercise the imagination, has been quite irresistible. As years have flown and knowledge from many investigators has been added up, it is time that archaeology shall begin to be certain and a science. The next step requires a competent experience and a sound judgement to decide both what is and what is not proven. For to be right it is quite important to know the limits and certainties of knowledge. This Society presents to its members with pleasure this little book, by Professor M. C. Read, of Hudson, Ohio, late a prominent member of the Geological Survey, of theS
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