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  2. Prehistory of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Later in the Archaic period, people developed trade routes which introduced new goods and ideas and bands became more culturally diverse. [11] Spear-thrower, or atlatl in use. The Archaic people continued to make their tools from flint, but they made a wider range of tools. [9] The stone tools of the Paleo-Indians disappeared.

  3. Glacial Kame culture - Wikipedia

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    The Glacial Kame culture was a culture of Archaic people in North America that occupied southern Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana from around 8000 BC to 1000 BC. The name of this culture derives from its members' practice of burying their dead atop glacier-deposited gravel hills .

  4. Ridgeway Site - Wikipedia

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    Because little was known in the mid-19th century about Ohio's prehistoric inhabitants, he was unable to identify the cultural affinity of the people buried at the Ridgeway Site: they were plainly not part of any people that had previously been recorded. As a result, his conclusions were limited to the observation that the Ridgeway people were ...

  5. Red Ocher people - Wikipedia

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    The Red Ocher people were an indigenous people of North America. A series of archaeological sites located in the Upper Great Lakes, the Greater Illinois River Valley, and the Ohio River Valley in the American Midwest have been discovered to be a Red Ocher burial complex, dating from 1000 BC to 400 BC, the Terminal Archaic – Early Woodland period.

  6. Mount Nebo Archaeological District - Wikipedia

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    Mount Nebo has gained a reputation as one of the most valuable archaeological sites in southwestern Ohio. Local amateur archaeologists have frequented the area, as large numbers of artifacts can be found on the surface of the ground. Among the findings are artifacts both of the Archaic and Woodland periods, thousands of years apart from each ...

  7. Serpent Mound - Wikipedia

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    The Serpent Mound is now listed as a "Great Wonder of the Ancient World" by National Geographic Magazine. The mound was originally purchased on behalf of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum. In 1900, the land and its ownership were granted to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (a predecessor of the present Ohio Historical Society).

  8. Category:Archaeological sites in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Ohio, in the United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out ...

  9. SunWatch Indian Village - Wikipedia

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    The Fort Ancient culture people, whose society was based on agriculture, would have planned rituals around a solar calendar. With reconstructed dwellings, a plaza and gardens, and an interpretive center, the village was opened in 1988 to the public as an open-air museum.