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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.
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 ...
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.
SunWatch Indian Village and Fort Ancient are the sister sites to the museum. [ 2 ] The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), [ 3 ] affiliated with the Association of Children's Museums (ACM), and is a governing member of the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC). [ 4 ]
It is believed to have been the site of a village of the Fort Ancient culture of prehistoric Native Americans. Radiocarbon dating has revealed that State Line was occupied at approximately the same time as the SunWatch site near Dayton, Ohio and the Turpin site at Newtown, Ohio , while post-excavation analysis has shown that the inhabitants of ...
The Cox site is a Middle Fort Ancient culture (1200 to 1400 CE) archaeological site located in Woodford County, Kentucky, in the Bluegrass region of the state. The site is located on a large ridge and is approximately 65 metres (213 ft) by 60 metres (200 ft), although there may be other unexplored sections to the north.
The Utz Site is located in central Missouri, north of the city of Marshall and south of Miami.It is roughly 200 acres (81 ha) in size. A small portion is in an outlying part of Van Meter State Park, whose main feature is the so-called Old Fort; [3] the rest is on private land. [4]
Artists conception of the SunWatch Indian Village of the Fort Ancient people. From about 900 to 1600 CE, during the Late Prehistoric Period, a cultural group called the Fort Ancient people lived in southwest Ohio.