For more than 10,000 years native cultures thrived here along the Ocmulgee River.  The Ocmulgee National Monument is an attempt to preserve the archeological evidence of their existence.  A cluster of man made earthen mounds in an area just strewn with generations of stone tools and weapons and increasingly sophisticated pottery hint at the lives these people led.  Found things tell a lot about what the people did but as seems to often be the case with digs, they don’t tell the whys.

The Creek tried desperately to hold onto this bit of land along the Ocmulgee.  It represented the birth of their culture.  I wonder what will remain to tell of our time on this earth and I wonder how the next inhabitants will interpret it?