• Thumbnail for Feurt Mounds and Village Site
    The Feurt Mounds and Village Site is a Fort Ancient culture archaeological site with three burial mounds and an associated village, located in Clay Township...
    6 KB (742 words) - 07:10, 7 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Serpent Mound
    historical sites throughout Ohio. Effigy mounds have been constructed independently by several cultures. The significance of Serpent Mound is based on...
    32 KB (4,152 words) - 01:07, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Ancient
    Fort Ancient (section Sites)
    such as Angel Mounds and Kincaid Mounds. These sites were abandoned during this time. During the Montour phase (1550 to 1700), villages were occupied...
    47 KB (4,488 words) - 01:49, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mound Builders
    observed people living in fortified towns with lofty mounds and plazas and surmised that many of the mounds served as foundations for priestly temples. Near...
    54 KB (6,572 words) - 08:34, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for State Line Archeological District
    three small burial mounds, which appear to be the work of earlier mound building peoples. At one time, the site comprised five mounds, but only three remain...
    5 KB (445 words) - 21:46, 9 August 2023
  • The Hardin Village site (15GP22) is a Fort Ancient culture Montour Phase archaeological site located on a terrace of the Ohio River near South Shore in...
    10 KB (1,117 words) - 02:00, 7 January 2024
  • Hopewell tradition mounds, built between 100 BCE and 500 CE, known as the Portsmouth Earthworks. The site is a 1.2-hectare (3.0-acre) village on the second...
    10 KB (807 words) - 20:10, 1 July 2024
  • of Archaic, Woodland and Late Prehistoric artifacts. However, the largest component is a small village and cemetery of the Feurt Phase of the Fort Ancient...
    6 KB (487 words) - 00:46, 8 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Turpin site
    remains of a village of the Fort Ancient culture and of multiple burial mounds. Numerous bodies have been found in and around the mounds as a result of...
    8 KB (908 words) - 22:32, 9 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Madisonville site
    "Mariemont Embankment and Village Site". Madisonville is the type site for the Madisonville phase of Fort Ancient pottery. The 5-acre site is located on a bluff...
    4 KB (439 words) - 00:21, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fort Ancient (Lebanon, Ohio)
    Fort Ancient (Lebanon, Ohio) (category Mounds in Ohio)
    corner of the complex, four circular stone-covered mounds are arranged in a square. The southwest mound of the four is interpreted to have functioned as...
    15 KB (1,811 words) - 18:33, 6 November 2024
  • 8 mi) from the Ohio River. The site has several components, including two mounds and a village. The site is a village (Cleek 15Be22) with a centrally...
    6 KB (499 words) - 12:40, 23 February 2024
  • Indian Village Site is an archaeological site located near Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River in the United States. This site sits...
    8 KB (971 words) - 03:35, 6 August 2023
  • chronology. The site is near Jessamine Creek, on top of a broad ridge. Unlike later Fort Ancient villages, which are more compact, the Muir site structures...
    4 KB (231 words) - 20:39, 10 July 2022
  • circular village areas, each surrounding its own central plaza and several smaller special use areas to the north and northeast of the site. The site was excavated...
    2 KB (194 words) - 20:50, 19 January 2024
  • chronology and was a contemporary of Baum Phase sites in the Scioto River valley. Hardin Village site Bentley site Hansen site Ronald Watson Gravel site Cleek–McCabe...
    3 KB (107 words) - 23:22, 19 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alligator Effigy Mound
    Alligator Mound is one of two extant effigy mounds known in the present-day state of Ohio, along with Serpent Mound in Adams County, Ohio. It has been listed...
    6 KB (735 words) - 00:45, 8 September 2023
  • investigations at the site have happened for archaeologists to be able to determine the pattern, shape or layout of the proposed village site. The finding of...
    3 KB (167 words) - 04:30, 26 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cole culture
    Cole culture (category Archaeological sites in Ohio)
    instead of mounds. They shared many traits with the Hopewell tradition and might be descended from them. A major Cole Culture site is the Ufferman Site in Delaware...
    2 KB (141 words) - 01:17, 7 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for SunWatch Indian Village
    SunWatch Indian Village / Archaeological Park, previously known as the Incinerator Site, and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 33-MY-57, is a reconstructed...
    5 KB (562 words) - 19:37, 23 October 2024
  • culture. Bentley site Thompson site Ronald Watson Gravel site Cleek–McCabe site Hardin Village site Applegate, Darlene (2008), "Chapter 5:Woodland period"...
    6 KB (396 words) - 20:11, 20 June 2024
  • large village complex on a ridge 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south of the Licking River and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of the Ohio River. The site covers...
    2 KB (151 words) - 07:10, 7 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Clover site
    Shawneetown Site, the Buffalo site, the Hardin Village site, the Madisonville site, the Rolfe Lee site, Logan site, and Marmet Village site. Pottery excavated...
    6 KB (577 words) - 22:18, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Upper Mississippian culture
    Upper Mississippian culture (category Mound Builders)
    three platform mounds. However, a resurgence of mound building occurred towards the end of the 17th century, for example at the Oneota site of Blood Run...
    59 KB (5,903 words) - 01:38, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leo Petroglyph
    Leo Petroglyph (category Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio)
    humans and other animals as well as footprints of each. The petroglyph is located near the small village of Leo, Ohio (in Jackson County, Ohio) and is thought...
    4 KB (289 words) - 22:19, 7 August 2023
  • valleys and made temporary camp villages since the Archaic period in the Americas. Many ancient human-made earthen mounds from various mound builder cultures...
    122 KB (16,896 words) - 18:31, 12 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Clough Creek and Sand Ridge Archaeological District
    have been the site of a large prehistoric village.: 579  The Sand Ridge Site lies about 0.3 miles (0.48 km) away from the Clough Creek Site.: 579  Located...
    6 KB (638 words) - 04:21, 6 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for National Register of Historic Places listings in Scioto County, Ohio
    Columbus: Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, 1914, page 73 and plate 73. The NRIS lists the site as "Address Restricted". Location derived...
    18 KB (348 words) - 20:29, 12 September 2022
  • Park Cleek–McCabe site Hansen site Bentley site Thompson site Hardin Village site Huebchen, Karl R. (2006), The Ronald Watson Gravel Site (15Be249):An examination...
    5 KB (366 words) - 07:10, 7 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hahn Field Archeological District
    Hahn Field Archeological District (category Archaeological sites in Ohio)
    Baldwin site Baum Site Gartner site Serpent Mound Feurt Focus Buffalo Indian Village Site Feurt Mounds and Village Site Hardin Village site Leo Petroglyph...
    1 KB (45 words) - 22:31, 6 August 2023