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The Fort Ancient culture is a Native American archaeological culture that dates back to c. 1000–1750 CE. [1] Members of the culture lived along the Ohio River valley, in an area running from modern-day Ohio and western West Virginia through to northern Kentucky and parts of southeastern Indiana . [ 2 ]
SunWatch Indian Village / Archaeological Park, previously known as the Incinerator Site, and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 33-MY-57, is a reconstructed Fort Ancient Native American village next to the Great Miami River.
The Fort Ancient earthworks were built in at least three stages over an estimated 400-year period. The shoulder blades of deer, split elk antlers, clam shell hoes, and digging sticks were used to loosen the dirt, and baskets holding 35 to 40 pounds were used to carry and distribute the soils in building the earthworks.
A triple woodhenge constructed about two millennia ago at the Fort Ancient Earthworks in Ohio. Mounds State Park: Mounds State Park is a state park in Anderson, Indiana, featuring prehistoric Native American heritage, and 10 ceremonial mounds built by the Adena people and apparently also used by later Hopewell inhabitants. Newark Earthworks
The site remains preserved today. [5] Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [6] Wolf Plains Group A Late Adena group of 30 earthworks including 22 conical mounds and nine circular enclosures. [14] located a few miles to the northwest of Athens, Ohio. Zaleski Mound Group: A collection of three burial mounds in the village of ...
Ruins. Including more than 600 rooms, this great house is a National Historic Landmark located on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. [1] Kinnazinde: Ruins. Lomaki: Sinagua Flagstaff Ruins located in the Wupatki National Monument. Los Morteros: Hohokam Trincheras Ruins. Montezuma Castle: Sinagua Ruins. A National Monument. Nalakihu: Sinagua ...
Native American heritage sites are sites specifically created in many National Park Sites in the United States to commemorate the contribution of the Native American cultures. The term ‘Native American’ includes all cultural groups that predate the arrival of either western European or East coast explorers and settlers.
The Buffalo 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 atop a high terrace on the eastern bank of the Kanawha River and was once home to a variety of Native American villages including the Archaic, Middle Woodland and Fort Ancient cultures of this region.