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Prehistory and Indians

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Which prehistoric culture was associated with the development of horticulture?
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Which city has a cemetery named after a burial mound within its boundaries?
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In which county are the Bens Run earthworks located?
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The Clover Archeological Site in this county is one of the most signicant Late Prehistoric/Protohistoric villages ever found in West Virginia?
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What West Virginia amusement park is also the site of a prehistoric burial mound?
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Which one of the following historic Indian tribes was NOT associated with present West Virginia?
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The Battle of Point Pleasant, pitting Virginia militia against Shawnees, was the only battle of what war?
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What destroyed the prehistoric stone walls on Mount Carbon in Fayette County?
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In addition to disease, what is the main reason virtually no Indians lived in present West Virginia when European-Americans began settling?
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The capture of this person by Shawnees helped prompt Andrew Lewis's disastrous Sandy Creek Expedition.
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