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Prehistory and Indians

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Which city has a cemetery named after a burial mound within its boundaries?
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What Shawnee leader tried to warn American militia about an impending attack at Fort Randolph in 1777 only to be murdered?
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What name has been given to a Late Prehistoric culture whose people lived in present Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and southern West Virginia between A.D. 1000 and 1650?
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This site, identified in 1963, contained some of the most important archeological deposits yet discovered in the eastern United States.
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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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All burial remains and artifacts excavated from the South Charleston Mound are now located where?
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What destroyed the prehistoric stone walls on Mount Carbon in Fayette County?
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Which of the following is NOT associated with the Late Archaic period (3000-1000 B.C.)?
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Which one of the following was a major new development of the Late Prehistoric Period (A.D. 1200-1550)?
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