User talk:Vermoskitten

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Hello Veronica, and welcome to Wikipedia! I really like the article on the Adena culture. I have a few questions:

1 - Does the Adena culture have any latter-day descendants in the various First Nations today?

2 - Why were they so tall?

3 - What caused it to end?

4 - Did it have a descendant culture?

I have being aware of the mound-builders for several years, but as I live in Europe can't say that I know much about it. Any and all other information on these and related pre-Columbian cultures in what is now the USA would be much appreciated as for many history in those parts starts much later, and it would be great to know what was there beforehand. Cheers! Fergananim 16:34, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Adena Culture- i think it's great that you added the adena culture to wikipedia... i have long had an interest in local archaeology (in live in sw pennsylvania) and the adena and hopewell cultures are some of the most interesting. on a side note- do a google search for "octagon moonrise" that site has some interesting info about the celestial alignments of the newark, oh mounds (hopewell) - you'd probably be interested in it...

but there is no archaeological evidence, at least none that holds up under scrutiny, that ANY native american cultures (pre-columbian or not) had significant numbers of people that tall. i am a member of the Society for Pa Archaeology and have participated in many discusssions on how this myth first developed. most archaeologists believe that it simply lies in misinterpretations made by early archaeologists (from the late 1800s and early 1900s) based on the layout of the bones they would find. and once stated in their findings, and embedded the conscience of those interested, well... those myths have persisted to this day.

so i would, if i were you, remove that portion of your entry. it is simply wrong. other than that, i liked the article.

Los Diablos 13:15, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Veronica,

I just wanted to let you know that the image Image:Artifact pipe.gif has been removed from the Wikipedia:Featured pictures page. I'm guessing that you didn't realise that for a picture to become a Featured Picture there is a process that has to be followed. First you have to nominate it at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, then wait to see what other people think of it. If it fits all of Wikipedia's criteria, is an excellent illustration for an article, and enough people like it, then it can be promoted to the Featured Pictures page.

However, in this case there is a larger problem in that the image hasn't been tagged with an acceptable copyright tag. So in fact it might have to be deleted. Looking at the source web site it came from, I can't see any information to suggest that this is a photograph that can be freely used, however if you know different, or it is one of your own photographs, you can find a list of possible copyright tags at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. On the other hand, if it is a mistake and not a free photograph, just let me know and I can arrange to have it removed.

Oh by the way, the Adena culture article looks quite nice. -- Solipsist 16:37, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I just read your Adena culture article; nice job. I'm an archaeologist who works in the Eastern United States, so I added a couple of things you might find interesting. If you like Adena, check out my Mississippian culture article.TriNotch 06:47, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]