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The Adena/Allegewi culture had flourished for about 800 years before they met their first serious challenge from outside invaders. It is so hard to imagine how long 800 years is. Suffice it to say that that is more than three times as long as the United States has been in existence!
These tall, often fair or [...]

As noted two blogs ago, I don’t buy the whole “the mounds were built by Kelts” theory. However, it would be foolish to discount the presence of Kelts and their lasting influence on the cultures they met. I do not believe that they came to pre-Columbian America in huge numbers but they DID come here [...]

Hidden History will be back in two or three days. I’m on the road again. On Tuesday morning, I went to the airport in Detroit to board a Southwest flight to Little Rock. Little Rock being a non-hub, you can’t fly directly there (except on a very rare Delta flight). My flight would go first [...]

A very interesting book was published this year by Bear and Company, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America. The author is Frank Joseph and that is a good and bad thing. It is a good thing in that that guarantees the book is readable and enjoyable. It is — or may be — a bad thing [...]

Look at this blog as a sidebar to the continuing look at the Adena/Allegheny culture. The reason I am diverting to a sidebar is because there IS a theory about the origins of the Adena that I don’t hold to but which isn’t as absurd as it seems at first glance: the Kelts came here [...]

Let’s take a quick break from Hidden History for a few days and let you chew over this. One of my readers and commenters, Dee, is also one of my favorite people. When she asks a question, I figure it is one that others might want to hear answered, too. She noticed that the Adena/Allegheny [...]

I cannot run wires in my house, creating new electrical circuits, installing ceiling fans and outlets. I’ve tried to learn how. I’ve watched it done a dozen times and I’ve read books from the library but… it isn’t happening. I’ve even tried to get a neighbor to help me (RIP) but that turned out to [...]

I have no idea why people don’t travel more to see Adena sites. They aren’t hidden, though many are ignored. Even the keepers of the Official Story agree that the Adena were an incredible people…but I doubt that 5% of Americans even know their name.
Outside Manchester, Tennessee are the remains of a major Adena fortress-city [...]

Happy Birthday, America! I know very few will be reading this over the Fourth of July holiday, but I had a half hour to write so I took advantage of it! I’ve written before of my trip to Moundsville (named, of course, for the mounds the Adena/Allegheny left behind) and, specifically, of the Grave Creek [...]