Fort Ancient Public Structures

2015 ◽  
pp. 295-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pollack ◽  
A. Gwynn Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Fort Ancient

Determining Site Size and Structure: A Fort Ancient Example

2011 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Cook ◽  
Jarrod Burks
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Basic Site ◽  
Agricultural Field ◽  
Site Structure ◽  
Survey Techniques ◽  
Fort Ancient ◽  
Magnetic Gradiometry ◽  
Size And Structure ◽  
Habitation Site

A basic problem in archaeological research is determining site size and structure. In this paper we develop an approach that sequentially employs several survey techniques, including aerial photography, magnetic gradiometry, magnetic susceptibility, and shovel testing in the context of the Wildcat site (33My499), a Fort Ancient habitation site located near Dayton, Ohio. Defining site size and structure was a challenge at Wildcat since it is located in an agricultural field that has not been plowed for many years. Magnetic susceptibility and close-interval shovel testing worked well to define the basic site structure, and magnetic gradiometry and targeted magnetic anomaly excavations efficiently revealed a series of features. Alone, each of the methods produced somewhat misleading data regarding site size and structure, but together they revealed a much smaller site than originally anticipated.

Deer use in good times and in bad: A Fort Ancient case study from southwest Ohio

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Deppen ◽  
Robert A. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Fort Ancient

Fort Ancient

2001 ◽  
pp. 174-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gwynn Henderson ◽  
David Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Fort Ancient

Arguments for the Age of Serpent Mound

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley T. Lepper ◽  
James R. Duncan ◽  
Carol Diaz-Granádos ◽  
Tod A. Frolking
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Fort Ancient ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Radiometric Ages ◽  
Original Construction ◽  
Original Configuration

Serpent Mound, in northern Adams County, Ohio, USA, is one of the most iconic symbols of ancient America and yet there is no widely agreed upon date for the age of its original construction. Some archaeologists consider it to have been built by the Adena culture around 300bc, while others contend it was built by the Fort Ancient culture aroundad1100. There have been three attempts to obtain radiometric ages for the effigy, but they have yielded inconclusive results. The iconography of the earthwork offers an alternative means of placing the mound in its cultural context. Serpent imagery is abundant in the Fort Ancient culture as well as in the more encompassing Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere. Pictographs from Picture Cave in Missouri include a serpent, a humanoid female and a vulvoid in close association. We interpret these elements, in the light of Siouan oral traditions, as First Woman and her consort the Great Serpent. The Picture Cave imagery dates to betweenad950 and 1025. We argue that these same three elements are represented in the original configuration of Serpent Mound and therefore situate its design and original construction in the Early Fort Ancient period.

Becoming and Descending

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-100
Author(s):  
Robert A. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Fort Ancient ◽  
Research Philosophy ◽  
Mississippian Culture ◽  
Current Emphasis

Over the course of the discipline, archaeological investigations have toggled between history and process, with the current emphasis being increasingly placed on historical aspects. Rather than seeing this as a choice to make, Cook agrees with those that see both as being necessary to understand the full dimensions of the human problems we investigate. Cook presents a Fort Ancient/Mississippian culture case study that explores various dimensions of this research philosophy. This is followed by a discussion that explores the theoretical toggling that seems to occur more so as studies that emphasize one extreme end of the historical-processual continuum seem to be exhausted.

Mississippian/Fort Ancient Interaction and Identity in the Falls Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-224
Author(s):  
MICHAEL W. FRENCH ◽  
DAVID POLLACK
Keyword(s):  
Fort Ancient

scholarly journals Bayesian Chronological Modeling of SunWatch, a Fort Ancient Village in Dayton, Ohio

Radiocarbon ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 965-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony M Krus ◽  
Robert Cook ◽  
Derek Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
Single Component ◽  
Wood Charcoal ◽  
Temporal Separation ◽  
Model Estimate ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
Primary Model ◽  
Fort Ancient ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Group 1

Radiocarbon results from houses, pits, and burials at the SunWatch site, Dayton, Ohio, are presented within an interpretative Bayesian statistical framework. The primary model incorporates dates from archaeological features in an unordered phase and uses charcoal outlier modeling (Bronk Ramsey 2009b) to account for issues of wood charcoal14C dates predating their context. The results of the primary model estimate occupation lasted for1–245 yr(95% probability), starting incal AD 1175–1385(95% probability) and ending incal AD 1330–1470(95% probability). An alternative model was created by placing the14C dates into two unordered phases corresponding with horizontal stratigraphic relationships or distinct groups of artifacts thought to be temporally diagnostic. The results of the alternative model further suggest that there is some temporal separation between Group 1 and Group 2, which seems more likely in the event of a multicomponent occupation. Overall, the modeling results provide chronology estimates for SunWatch that are more accurate and precise than that provided in earlier studies. While it is difficult to determine with certainty if SunWatch had a single-component or multicomponent occupation, it is clear that SunWatch's occupation lasted until the second half of the AD 1300s.

scholarly journals Fort Ancient, Warren county, Ohio

Science ◽  
1886 ◽  
Vol ns-8 (201) ◽  
pp. 538-540
Author(s):  
C. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Fort Ancient ◽  
Warren County
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