Club Anthropologica Does Archaeology Weekend

Every year in September, the archaeologists who work at the Daniel Boone National Forest put on Living Archaeology Weekend. Club Anthropologica has been attending for years. The Weekend, held on the banks of the Red River near Gladie Historic Cabin, reconstructs Indian life in the area as it was at European Contact.

Indians of the era lived either in wigwams made of bark and grass, or small, rectangular wattle and daub houses.

They hunted and gathered and also tended small gardens (a mixed subsistence system) of corn, beans, squash and sunflower.

They also hunted wild game, primarily deer, with a bow and arrow. No, this is NOT a bow and arrow, it is an atlatl. Atlatls were used for hunting from the earliest peopling of the New World, until bow and arrow technology replaced it, around 800 A.D. in Kentucky. Careful where you point that thing, now!