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Menoken Intro | Menoken Archeological Studies | Menoken Photos
This aerial view of Menoken Village shows the outline of the
palisade and ditch with the four bastions. The location of the
village on the banks of Apple Creek was strategically smart.
Modern day farmers work the fields around the site and visitors
can read about the village at the kiosks near the parking area.
An archeological team conducts the excavation of a house. Note
the holes where the support beams were placed. This
archeological drawing shows the information recovered by
excavation of a surface house. Excavated site of a pit house.
This is the floor plan of a pit house. Note the absence of
postholes around the perimeter of the house. This diagram
demonstrates how a pit house with sod walls was built and then
slowly returned to the earth after it was abandoned. These are
some of the pieces of copper recovered at the Menoken site.
Copper is a soft metal and easily worked into a usefu