The French Broad River is very low due to extreme drought. There are nice 3-acre fields adjacent to the river, perfect place for the Cherokee to have a village, grow corn, spear big catfish and shoot deer which came down for a drink of water.
The Beagle and I spent an hour yesterday, inspecting the sand bars which extend from the bank to the middle of the river. I didn't see a single Indian artifact. Not one arrowhead, not a single piece of broken pottery. WTF?
Too much transportation and deposition inside the river channel itself. Recheck after the next high rain return single event. Is there any bank areas that have collapsed due to rotational slide? Check those heaps of soil and any root balls of trees that have fallen i to the channel and may still attached to the bank. Check their roots and fingerlings and the socket from whence the shoreline birthed it.
