Home Strange rock carvings greeted early explorers of West Virginia Illustration of Half-Moon Archaelogical Site, c. 1847

Illustration of Half-Moon Archaelogical Site, c. 1847

Images of beasts and men decorate a boulder at the Half-Moon archaeological site, now submerged beneath the Ohio River.

Detail from Half Moon Archaeological Site

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