2-22-07 Ocmulgee National Monument

Now this place is WAY out of my comfort zone as far as history goes. We mainly stopped because I wanted to have a good long walk before we drove on to Atlanta. Ocmulgee has an archeological exhibit that shows that people have lived in the area for 10,000 years, from Ice Age hunters to Creek Indians. "Between 900 and 1100BCE (before current era) a skilled farming people lived there". Interesting huge funeral mounds, prehistoric trenches, an earthlodge, and lots of ancient pots, tools, and beads. Even a fluted Clovis point, which is the evidence of the earliest people as it would have armed the spear of an Ice Age hunter 10,000 years ago. Oh, my. I had a good walk!