Talk:Grave Creek Mound

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Contents 1 Copyright trouble on this page 2 Discovery? 3 Serpent Mound not Adena 4 Missing the Grave Creek Stone 5 Merging this with Grave Creek Stone

[edit] Copyright trouble on this page

As someone noted at the bottom of the page, the text was copied from this site, which states that it is copyrighted, all rights reserved, etc. --Malepheasant 01:23, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 14:49, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discovery?

I removed the following section which appeared to be a test edit. Maybe someone else can do something with this? Thanks. Flibirigit 06:52, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

From History of Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia. - Joseph Tomlinson II (1745-1825), original white settler of the property, discovered the Grave Creek Mound during summer of 1770 while returning to his cabin from a hunting trip.

I'm suspicious of the Lewis and Clark reference since their expedition was nowhere near West Virginia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mistergs (talk • contribs)

[edit] Serpent Mound not Adena

I removed the reference to the Serpent Mound as it post-dates the Adena Culture by several centuries - this is even stated in the Serpent Mound article. --Ossipewsk (talk) 01:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Missing the Grave Creek Stone

This article should contain a summary and photo of the controversial discovery of the "Grave Creek Stone" that has both been declared a fraud, and also been declared a genuine Punic inscription by Barry Fell.Cadwallader (talk) 20:48, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Would you supply a source to cite for that? Thanks. Flibirigit (talk) 03:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Simpler to just do a See Also to the Grave Creek Stone which gives it good coverage. I don't think there are any photos we can use if the article is correct.Doug Weller (talk) 07:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I may be wrong about the photo, it's on Hu McCulloch's site, he's a friend of mine (although we disagree about most things) so I'll ask him about it.Doug Weller (talk) 07:48, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merging this with Grave Creek Stone

This seems a no brainer. I've emailed Hu, by the way.Doug Weller (talk) 16:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Having said that, there is a significan difference between the 2 articles -- one is a genuine Native American archaeological site, the other is about what is almost certainly a hoax. And the article on the stone is much longer. So, at the moment I think the best thing to do is to put a see also on this article and a photo on the other one. What I don't think is required is rehashing the stone here.Doug Weller (talk) 18:08, 23 April 2008 (UTC)