we would always put in a 2 to 3 acre garden... plowed it by single blade turn plow hand steered and we frequently dug up pot shards and arrowheads... my dad once found a axe head made from obsidian (dragon glass to you GOT fans).

I think we had like 20 or 30 arrowheads in the collection... some good, others chipped or otherwise flawed. I think our land had once been used as a "manufacturing site" by native Americans... just down the hill from our land there was a rock quarry (flint mostly) that had been there a very long time

I don't think it all falls into place for children until they are old enough to get a sense of history.

That would be some kind of experience.

Obsidian axe head. Stunning.

I think I noticed the article said they had trade routes that extended all the way to the Aztec civilization around Mexico City, and I have read that Aztecs used obsidian a lot. It would be fantastic to have that axe head again and have someone examine it.

Have never even seen an ancient axe head in person.

You lived in a great location.

but smaller and nothing really larger than an arrowhead. I do have a nice, shiny black arrowhead that looks like it was never used. All the marks to make it are still there. Mostly I have regular, small arrowheads that are actually all pretty much intact. Lots of sharks teeth too.

We used to go to Burnetts mound as kids, I don't know why maybe just to get us out of the house, and my brothers and I would look all over the place and that is where I found most of them. Now....nothing but grafitti and fencing and apartments and houses all around it. I don't think many consider any of those little things important anymore.

Judi, I read this yesterday and was mesmerized but never had the chance to finish it. Thanks for this reminder. It came up on the phone because I still live around there. I will finish here. Thanks so much for all the wonderful items you bring to our attention.

Never hunted for arrowheads there.

I remember that in 1966, the EF-5 tornado that took out a lot of the city went right over the mound.

My ex-wife's grandmother lived there and the tornado took out all of the houses directly across the street from her place, but almost didn't touch her house.

I think burnett's mound was also a Native American burial site.

at the age of 12. It and the seven others that touched down around us that evening were pretty amazing.

I was always told that Chief Burnett was buried there but that is not correct. The ground around it was not to be disturbed, it protected the people from tornados by using spirits of those who had passed. It was respected for years until the great fathers of Topeka decided to run the Interstate right along the sacred base. Then dig out part of it for a big old water tank then start building houses and apartments all around it. Not that I particularly believe in spirits protecting us from tornados but one would have thought that a stupid city could have respected it better than that!

The tornado started just to the Southwest of the city and went to the mound and covered it, picked up a radio guy who still lives after being carried by the storm and dropped. There are videos of it just swallowing the mound. It continued and lifted almost immediately as it left the Northeast city limits. Hmmmmm, I think we should have moved all that construction away from the mound. Most close or on it were distroyed.

It took years and years to recover from it.

and we still have family living there today. "Ark City" is what they call it. I can't wait to show them this article. Parents are in their 90s now, and live in Chicago, but they will find this very interesting. They used to take me there in the summer to visit relatives. My mom grew up on 3rd Street and my dad grew up on S. A Street.

Archaeologists Discover The Site Of A Massive Long-Lost City In The US



Archaeologists have unearthed the site of a lost city in the most unlikely of places. This civilization wasn’t found in the thick undergrowth of the jungle, nor was it guarded by evil spirits. It was discovered in an unassuming rural field in the heart of the US.

The Los Angeles Times recently talked to Donald Blakeslee, a Wichita State University professor, who discovered the lost city of Etzanoa in Arkansas City, Kansas, not far from the Oklahoma border. This settlement might have been one of the largest Native American settlements ever built, second only to one in Cahokia, Illinois. Spanish colonialists had written about the city’s vast size and complexity, however, the town had vanished with little trace by 1700.

“The Spaniards were amazed by the size of Etzanoa,” Blakeslee told The Wichita Eagle last year. “They counted 2,000 houses that could hold 10 people each. They said it would take two or three days to walk through it all.”

In 2015, Blakeslee and a team of his students were excavating near Arkansas City when they unearthed a mud-covered rusty piece of metal. Locals have discovered literally tons of metal artifacts in this field over the years, however, something about this discovery clicked in Blakeslee’s mind: the nail looked as if it had been flung from the cannon of a Spanish conquistador.

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