first people

dog and i went out to cochran shoals this afternoon --- gobs of people, since a lot of people weren't working today ---  one of the best things in that unit are the rock outcroppings that sheltered paleo-indians hunters for thousands of years as they roamed the georgia piedmont ---  the national park service has identified sixteen natural rock shelters along the chattahoochee that produced archaeological evidence for human use as early as 8,000 BCE --- some are very small, but large enough to have provided one or two people some protection from the elements --- they've also identified eleven fish weirs, some of them prehistoric, but i'm not sure where those are ---

this is the largest of the rock shelters along the river --- it towers some twenty or more feet and could have sheltered several people comfortably --- the chattahoochee rock shelters were never more than temporary camps, but they preserved some of the earliest evidence of human occupation in these parts --- which is purty cool