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"This favorable weather, combined with its place as the first portion of Indiana to be reached by one ascending the Ohio River, caused the land within the boundaries of the modern county to have one of Indiana's heaviest concentrations of Pre-Columbian populations ..."
This appears to say that Pre-Contact peoples settled here because it is the first portion of Indiana reached by people going upstream. What do modern-day political boundaries have to do with where First Nations settled a half-millenium and more ago? 24.177.99.126 (talk) 22:02, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The point is that Posey County has one of Indiana's highest concentrations of Pre-Columbian populations. The sentence is intentionally only comparing the area with the rest of Indiana in order to demonstrate the importance of Posey County to Indiana archaeology: modern political boundaries are relevant in the context of conducting archaeology. Nyttend (talk) 02:46, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Why is the site called "Ashworth"? Was it named after a nearby geographic feature, or the name of the family on whose land it is located? — QuicksilverT@ 17:10, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No clue; the sources don't mention the owner's name as of 1947, and the National Register nomination form says that it was divided among several people, none of whom were named "Ashworth". I doubt that it's the feature; while it could easily be the owner, it could also be the discoverer; sites such as the Tudek Site and the Walker Gilmore Site are named for their discoverers. Nyttend (talk) 21:01, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
