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pian and Fort Ancient Native American groups intermar-   _; i‘ `iii     · ‘     _ 1    b
ried and traded products such as pottery and stone tools in ·” ° ``l° · `°”   `L = $5 ·--€·· _   .   V I
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archaeologists call the "late prehistoric period" of 1000 to _ ‘..   "     _. `
l700 A.D.. said Madsen. senior staff archaeologist in the   -_    ,_t   ’ Q     {
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entrance road to Louisville`s Eva Bandman Park.The team
is doing site work under a contract with the Kentucky De- l
  partment ofTransportation. ‘
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and others which had fabric—like patterns indicating they V A
were fashioned from grass or other botanical material. _   ` - _ .
Also at the site were remnants of animals, spear tips, and   `  
"nutting stones." sandstone rocks that have cupped out .     {  
places where the residents would have crushed nuts for ’° . + . it V VV _,
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of the site might have twirled a sharply barbed stone tip   A _.     4
found in the excavation on a stick in the hole to start fires.     viii    4 ·-     if     if 
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