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Prehistory of Ohio provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Ohio's recorded history. The ancient hunters, Paleo-Indians (13000 B.C. to 7000 B.C.), descended from humans that crossed the Bering Strait .
This list of the prehistoric life of Ohio contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Ohio. Precambrian [ edit ]
This list of the Paleozoic life of Ohio contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Ohio and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
A designated National Historic Landmark, in 2006 the Newark Earthworks was also designated as the "official prehistoric monument of the State of Ohio." [ 2 ] This is part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks , one of 14 sites nominated in January 2008 by the U.S. Department of the Interior for potential submission by the United States to the ...
Human history in Ohio began a few millennia after formation of the Bering land bridge about 14,500 BCE – see Prehistory of Ohio. By the mid-18th century, a few American and French fur traders engaged historic Native American tribes in present-day Ohio in the fur trade .
Spearheads were found by a local artifact collector in Sharon Center, Ohio.From 1990 to 1993, the site was excavated by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.Dr. David Brose, the former Curator of Archaeology, found the spearheads were in the style of Clovis points of the Paleo-Indians and "some of the oldest certain examples of human activity in the New World."
The fossil record of Ohio includes greater numbers of land plants, brachiopods, clams, crinoids, fishes. [4] Ohio was a low-lying swampy plain near the coast during the Pennsylvanian. Its latitude was near the equator. Sea levels rose and fell sporadically so the rock record shows a history of land, freshwater, and sea deposits.
The Madisonville site is a prehistoric archaeological site near Mariemont, Ohio, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1974 as the "Mariemont Embankment and Village Site". Madisonville is the type site for the Madisonville phase of Fort Ancient pottery.