Grave Creek Mound - Forging Ahead Preserving West Virginia's Story
As part of West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Forging Ahead: Preserving West Virginia's Story, this installment offers a visit to the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex, one of three historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places and preserved by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. This segment also concerns the history of archaeology in the mountain state.
Grave Creek Mound and Archaeological Complex
Exploring the Grave Creek Mound and the associated museum In Moundsville, WV
Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, West Virginia. Accending It and Reaching The Top
This video is a basic tour of the outside of this mammoth mound. The Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex was built because of the numbers of visitors the site receives each year. It's located along the Ohio River about 30 minutes south of Interstate 70. The state of Ohio is on the other side of the river. This video is just one stop in many that seeks out where the Nephilim (some call them giants) remains (or skeletons) are located. Some believe the Adena people were giants. It is believed they were one of the first mound builders.
Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, West Virginia Part 1
This video is a basic tour of the outside of this mammoth mound. The Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex was built because of the numbers of visitors the site receives each year. It's located along the Ohio River about 30 minutes south of Interstate 70. The state of Ohio is on the other side of the river. This video is just one stop in many that seeks out where the Nephilim (some call them giants) remains (or skeletons) are located. Some believe the Adena people were giants. It is believed they were one of the first mound builders.
The video is a little shaky in places. This will be corrected in future videos because I purchased a camcorder with a stabilization feature built into it.
An Introduction to the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex
On October 1, 2013, David E. Rotenizer presented An Introduction to the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex: A West Virginia Historic Site, Museum and Research Center at the Tuesday evening lecture in the Archives and History Library in the Culture Center in Charleston.
The Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville is one of the largest earthen burial mounds constructed by the Adena cultural tradition between 250 and 150 B.C. The seven-acre tract has been owned by the State of West Virginia since 1909 and hosts the Delf Norona Museum and the West Virginia Archaeological Research and Collections Management facility. The presentation provided an overview of the facility and its operations.
Rotenizer has been the site manager for the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex since 2009. He serves as West Virginia editor of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Newsletter and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Cockayne Farmstead, a project of the Marshall County Historical Society.
David Rotenizer has been involved in archaeology and historic preservation since 1979 with participation in more than 250 professional projects in nine states with supervisory experience in laboratory, archival and field settings. Past experiences include the successful launching of two tourism programs and an environmental education program in Virginia. He served 15 months with AmeriCorps*VISTA in Carroll County, Virginia, helping to develop community economic capacity. Rotenizer also participated in a long-term ethnographic field study in eastern Kentucky that included oral history and architectural documentation. From 1985 to 1987 he directed a site survey recording program in southwest Virginia that resulted in the documentation of more than 500 previously unrecorded archaeological site locations. He also coordinated Virginia Archaeology Month activities in southwest Virginia, 1997-2003. He is a long-time member of the Archeological Society of Virginia, organized the New River Valley and Blue Ridge Plateau chapters, currently serves on the Board of Directors, and is coordinator of the recently established Social Media Subcommittee and maintains a Facebook Page for the organization.
Rotenizer completed coursework at the University of Kentucky in anthropology and Appalachian Studies, and holds a Bachelor of General Studies from Radford University with a concentration in Appalachian Heritage Resources. He is a member of Lambda Alpha, national anthropology honors society. He was recognized for his preservation efforts with a statewide award by the Preservation Alliance of Virginia in 2002. He has an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army Reserve for 18 years of service. His hometown is Blacksburg, Virginia.
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A quick look at Grave Creek mound in Moundsville West Virginia. A town I hunt for Artifacts in on a regular basis.
Moundsville, WV. Penitentiary and Grave creek Mound. Ancient Indian burial mound
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MOUNDSVILLE WV-TOUR OF THE MOUND
At 62 feet (19 m) high and 240 feet (73 m) in diameter, the Grave Creek Mound in the Ohio River Valley in West Virginia is one of the largest conical-type burial mounds in the United States. The builders of the site, members of the Adena culture, moved more than 60,000 tons of dirt to create it about 250–150 BC. The earthwork mound is located in present-day Moundsville near the banks of the Ohio River.
The first recorded excavation of the mound took place in 1838, and was conducted by local amateurs. The largest surviving mound among those built by the Adena, it has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
In 1978 the state opened the Delf Norona Museum at the site. It displays numerous artifacts and interprets the ancient Adena Culture. In 2010, under an agreement with the state, the US Army Corps of Engineers gave nearly 450,000 artifacts to the museum for archival. These were recovered in archeological excavations at the site of the Marmet Lock, and represent 10,000 years of indigenous habitation.
Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex - View From atop the Mound
360 view from the top of the Grave Creek Adena Burial Mound at the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex in Moundsville, West Virginia.
An Introduction to the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex
Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, West Virginia Part 2
This video is just one stop in many that seeks out where the Nephilim (some call them giants) remains (or skeletons) are located. Some believe the Adena people were giants. It is believed they were one of the first mound builders. Some feel these giants date all the way back to 1000 B.C. To get a perspective of this time period, 1,000 B.C. might be right when either King David or King Solomon ruled in Israel.
The video is a little shaky in places. This will be corrected in future videos because I purchased a camcorder with a stabilization feature built into it.
The first recorded excavation was performed in this mound back in the 1838's. The tunnels they created to excavate the site have since collapsed. So they really don't know what else is in it; and below the mound. According to some sources, giants have been buried as deep as 15 feet below ground level at other mound sites.
An Introduction to the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex
On October 1, 2013, David E. Rotenizer presented An Introduction to the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex: A West Virginia Historic Site, Museum and Research Center at the Tuesday evening lecture in the Archives and History Library in the Culture Center in Charleston.
The Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville is one of the largest earthen burial mounds constructed by the Adena cultural tradition between 250 and 150 B.C. The seven-acre tract has been owned by the State of West Virginia since 1909 and hosts the Delf Norona Museum and the West Virginia Archaeological Research and Collections Management facility. The presentation provided an overview of the facility and its operations.
Rotenizer has been the site manager for the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex since 2009. He serves as West Virginia editor of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Newsletter and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Cockayne Farmstead, a project of the Marshall County Historical Society.
David Rotenizer has been involved in archaeology and historic preservation since 1979 with participation in more than 250 professional projects in nine states with supervisory experience in laboratory, archival and field settings. Past experiences include the successful launching of two tourism programs and an environmental education program in Virginia. He served 15 months with AmeriCorps*VISTA in Carroll County, Virginia, helping to develop community economic capacity. Rotenizer also participated in a long-term ethnographic field study in eastern Kentucky that included oral history and architectural documentation. From 1985 to 1987 he directed a site survey recording program in southwest Virginia that resulted in the documentation of more than 500 previously unrecorded archaeological site locations. He also coordinated Virginia Archaeology Month activities in southwest Virginia, 1997-2003. He is a long-time member of the Archeological Society of Virginia, organized the New River Valley and Blue Ridge Plateau chapters, currently serves on the Board of Directors, and is coordinator of the recently established Social Media Subcommittee and maintains a Facebook Page for the organization.
Rotenizer completed coursework at the University of Kentucky in anthropology and Appalachian Studies, and holds a Bachelor of General Studies from Radford University with a concentration in Appalachian Heritage Resources. He is a member of Lambda Alpha, national anthropology honors society. He was recognized for his preservation efforts with a statewide award by the Preservation Alliance of Virginia in 2002. He has an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army Reserve for 18 years of service. His hometown is Blacksburg, Virginia.360 view from the top of the Grave Creek Adena Burial Mound at the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex in Moundsville, West Virginia.
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The Day I Visited the Grave Creek Mound
Being guided by Bro. Umar's book; Pyramids of America: A Travelers Guide, on behalf of my non-profit educational organization, American Muurish Research Initiative (AMRI) Inc., I am on a continual quest to find information to present our true heritage as indigenous people in this land, America. The different groups of people who built these mounds throughout the Ohio Valley which predates even the history of the so-called Native Americans who occupied the land at the time arrival of the Colombian era Europeans, were called under one name, the Adena. Like the Pee Dee people (who inhabited parts of what is now called NC, SC and descend from what was identified as the Mississippian culture), they as well have been portrayed as a dark-skinned people.
Moundsville WV Indian Burial Mound
Grave Creek State Park
The Excavation of the Moundsville, Alabama - Mississippian Culture Archaeological Site
Originally entitled Temples And Peace 1937
by Department of the Interior. Division of Motion Pictures. This Public Domain government film highlights the excavations of the burial mounds at the Moundsville, Archaeological site in Alabama.
With the State of Alabama we reach the eastern frontier
of the Lower Mississippi archaeological province. Alabama
might well be called the buffer state between the Peninsular
and Georgia-Carolina districts on the one hand and the Lower
Mississippi on the other, for it shares certain manifestations
of cultures with all three.
The most important site in Alabama, however, and in
many respects in the five states comprising the Lower Mis-
sissippi area, belongs thereto exclusively, for it shows almost
no contact with other cultures of the state or with those of
Florida and Georgia. Near the city of Moundville on the line
between Hale and Tuscaloosa counties, on the south bank of
the Black Warrior River, is one of the finest mound groups
in the country. Exploration work conducted intermittently dur-
ing the past twenty years, but for the most part by Clarence
B. Moore in 1905 and 1906, has yielded an abundance of
rich material of value to the professional student of American
archaeology and of fascination to those whose interests are
more casual.
On a level plain extending back from the gullied bluffs of
the river nineteen square and oval flat-topped mounds vary-
ing in height from 3 to 23 feet are arranged in a rough circle
about two others, 22 and 57 feet high. Most of the mounds,
including the two latter, have one or more graded ways con-
necting their summits with the level ground. The oblong mound
lying nearest the center of the group covers the largest area,
I 95 by 35 I feet, although it is less than half as high as its
companion directly to the north. On the north side of this
latter mound is an artificial platform about 1% acres in ex-
tent. The plateau upon which the group is situated is well
above the highest level reached by the waters of the Black
Warrior River.
During two separate expeditions to Moundville Moore exca-
vated some 560 individual burials. About 455 of these came
from level ground around certain of the mounds, the remainder
being found in the mounds themselves. A large number of
earthenware vessels and other artifacts accompanied the bur-
ials, and often these objects alone were the only indications
of an inhumation, so badly were the human remains disinte-
grated. Not a single object of European origin was met with
at Moundville, and this may be regarded as conclusive evidence that the occupation of the site lay entirely within the
prehistoric period.
Grave Creek Mound - West Virginia - April 23, 2015
Andrew Collins gives his thoughts on Grave Creek Mound, WV, on April 23, 2015.