On an almost perfect summer day, 15 people gathered at the Aztalan State Park shelter for the annual club picnic. Bob Thornton had brought a sampling of new club material as a preview sale, and others brought their own rocks for swapping or selling. Afterward, Bob Birmingham, retired state archeologist and a volunteer at the park, came to the shelter to give a brief talk about the Indian history of the park. After the talk. Bob took us on a tour of some of the features of the village. First, we stopped at a partial reconstruction of the stockade that surrounded the village. for purposes of defense and was quite an engineering project. Next, we climbed to the top of one of the two large flat-topped pyramidal mounds on which the chief and his family would have lived. We ended the tour in what would have been the residential area of the village. (Scot Moss) |
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