Herb Roe 16 Feb 2005

And the oil version, The Kincaid Site circa 1150 a.d. I made a 3dsmax version from topo-maps and archaeological details, then picked one view and painted the oil version.

Hinsel Scott 17 Feb 2005

the buildings of these ancient cultures has always fascinated me. the mounds of earth especially. you did both these ? they're both very cool for different reasons. i know this is "for mand" but i'm peekin in anyhow!

Herb Roe 17 Feb 2005

That's cool, I put for mand to catch his attention, but anyone can look or comment. We did a mural(the oil is a study I did for the mural) in Paducah, Ky. The site is across the river in southern Illinois from Pad. Mand and I talked about it the other day, he's an archaeology buff and has been to this site. The 3dsmax version I built so I could get the perspective from the air and rotate around and find a cool view that showed the entire site, to use for the mural. I'm getting ready to do the same thing to a site in Mississippi after I have a meeting on monday. Sometimes my job is really fun. I love doin' this stuff. Oh, I'll attach a picture of what the place really looks like to this too.

Hinsel Scott 17 Feb 2005

awesome! they have a small mound just up the street from my old house in southeast louisiana -- slidell. one of the few in that area and not much of a hill...is right on the edge of these peoples yard down by where the boatlaunch is. on the honey island swamp/pearl the tribes there definitely would have made us of the waterway. the only way to even know there is a mound there other than to know the history is that the road that runs beside it is called "indian mound ln" and from the view from my front yard you can read the treeline and the tallest pine of the area grows near there.

wendy bandurski 17 Feb 2005

interesting post herb roe

interesting name too

GREAT Oil Painting :)

Herb Roe 17 Feb 2005

Thank,you Wendy, where you live sounds similar to where I grew up in northeastern Kentucky, except there's probably more people, but lots of hills. I'm in Louisiana right now, and I miss the hills. It's so flat here.

Steph Salt 17 Feb 2005

I do love to see painings of how these sites would of looked when they were lived in. It's a lovely painting Herb, thank you for showing it :)

I think many people who live on floodplains could do with taking a leaf out of their book :)

Mandible 666 19 Feb 2005

Herb its looking great man, you dont know how many times I have circled those mounds there picking up arrowheads and artifacts as a kid. I still hunt the river bottoms the mounds are located at to this day, and with spring around the corner it looks like it wont be long before im out in those plowed fields again. Thanks Herb.....

Mandible 666 19 Feb 2005

The long mound at the Kincaid Complex, its about three to four stories high, and big enough on top to place a few modern houses...... Heres a link to a article on the Kincaid Mounds

http://www.southernmostillinoishistory.net/kincaid2.htm

Mandible 666 19 Feb 2005

I had to show this photo because it just blows me away, over 2000 Birdpoints found in a cluster at Mound 72, at Cahokia near present day St.Louis. Cahokia was made by the same type of culture as the Kincaid mounds, and both sites are linked to each other via ancient trade routes.

Mandible 666 19 Feb 2005

Plummets found near the Kincaid Mounds. (These are about 3-4000 years old)

Plummets are a rare problematical artifact because they have no idea what they were really used for. The plummet on the left was broken by farm equipment, the one on the right is a whole example. My buddy found the broken one, and I found the whole one..he was rather pissed..lol

Hinsel Scott 19 Feb 2005

nice pics mand! i'd love to go arrowhead hunting with you some time! it would be a real shame if they ever put houses on those mounds imfo.

just a guess. maybe those plummets were used as we use modern plumbobs to mark straight vert lines in contruction. plums can also be used as devining or healing instruments....given they are made of hemetite it gives me in impression they were used for something of a spiritual/ritual nature...but who knows!?

Herb Roe 19 Feb 2005

Thank ya Mand. Thats some cool stuff. There used to be a modern house on top of that mound. When it was part of the Kincaid farm, Kincaid had his big 2 story farmhouse there. but that was over 100 yrs ago.

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