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Partially reconstructed Fort Ancient settlement at Sunwatch Indian Village 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 ...
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.
In the 1800s to early 1900s a village existed on the eastern bank of the Little Miami River, at the base of the Fort Ancient Earthworks. The village once had a post office (1846), [20] hotel, blacksmith shop and other businesses and residences. The village no longer exists, but is currently the home of a canoe livery and a private campground.
The Turpin site (33Ha19 [2]) is an archaeological site in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio.Located near Newtown in Hamilton County, [1] the site includes the remains of a village of the Fort Ancient culture and of multiple burial mounds.
The three mounds are on the Scioto River, near the Ohio River confluence. [2]William C. Mills in 1917 described the topography, "The immediate location of the mounds and village site is a level plateau of less than five acres in extent, elevated a little more than forty feet above the bottom land into which it projects, promontory like, with steep and very abrupt banks."
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The village site was found to have had two or more small plazas, rather than just one central site, as seen at the earlier SunWatch Indian Village. This is believed to be the only Fort Ancient site whose people consumed bison as part of the game hunted to supplement their diet of maize. They may have hunted the animals in areas to the west of ...
Archaeologists uncovered an ancient Native American village that could date back 2,000 years in Miami. It's being called one of the most significant prehistoric sites in the US. The Miami Herald ...