We continue up the  Ohio River and its tributaries eventually getting to the Scioto River.  Before we get to the Scioto River we have to manouvre the Falls of the Ohio where if you were travelling upstream you would have to put the boat on shore and carry it up the  rise over twenty feet at Clarksville. Who was losing Roman coins here in several spots? Who was losing Jewish Bar Kokhba coins from the Jewish Revolt here as well?  When we get to the Scioto River Valley it gets even stranger. As we know there were no iron furnaces in North America prior to the Colonial Period. Shame no one told the inhabitants though as there are several sites here that are furnaces for creating iron. Not from bog iron or meteoric iron, which you cold hammer as heating does nothing to it. This is an area of cities and massive fortresses, not mobile encampments. The so-called mounds, which I prefer to call Pyramids, as some are almost made the same size as those in Central and South America.  

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