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The Portsmouth Earthworks are a large prehistoric mound complex constructed by the Native American Adena and Ohio Hopewell cultures of eastern North America (100 BCE to 500 CE). [2] The site was one of the largest earthwork ceremonial centers constructed by the Hopewell and is located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, in present ...
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."
Paleo Crossing site, also known as the Old Dague Farm site, [2] is an archaeological site near Sharon Center, Ohio in Medina County where Clovis artifacts dated to 10,980 BP ± 75 years Before Present were found. [3] The Cleveland Museum of Natural History conducted an excavation from 1990 to 1993. [4]
Remains of the short-faced bear (now extinct) were found in the Sheriden Cave. Clovis artifacts dated to 13,000 years ago were found at the Paleo Crossing site in Medina County provides evidence of Paleo-Indians in northern Ohio and may be the area's oldest residents and archaeologist Dr. David Brose believes that they may be "some of the ...
Map of the archaeological cultures of Ohio Artists conception of the summer solstice sunrise at the Shriver Circle with the Mound City Group to the left. The greatest concentration of Hopewell ceremonial sites is in the Scioto River Valley (from Columbus to Portsmouth, Ohio) and adjacent Paint Creek valley, centered on Chillicothe, Ohio. These ...
Caleb Atwater (December 1778 – March 13, 1867) was an American politician, historian, and early archaeologist in the state of Ohio.He served several terms as a state politician and was appointed as United States postmaster of Circleville, Ohio.
A team of archaeological divers found pieces of ancient Egyptian artifacts that have been sitting at the bottom of the Nile River since the area was flooded in the 1960s and 1970s.. During an ...
It is connected to the Portsmouth Earthworks directly across the Ohio River in Portsmouth, Ohio. [2] [3] Conrad Mound Archeological Site: Located east of Cleves in Hamilton County, Ohio. Criel Mound: A 35-foot-high (11 m) and 175-foot-diameter (53 m) conical mound, is the second largest of its type in West Virginia.