Jerrel Anderson, Author at Jerrel C Anderson

A Chemically Modified Hematite Plummet (What kind of chemistry did this and was it intentionally done?)

May 30, 2021 | Ohio, Ohio Archaeology

Jerrel C. Anderson Vienna, WV The elegantly shaped, but damaged, plummet shown in Figures 1 and 2 was found by me many years ago just east of Chillicothe’s Bridge Street on the Scioto River flood plain. This site is now occupied by a restaurant. Figure 1. The...

The Steel Earthworks in 1979

Aug 27, 2019 | Earthwork, Ohio, Ohio Archaeology

Alvy McGraw told members of the Mound City Chapter of the ASO about a prominent sacred circle located just west of Chillicothe on the east bank of North Fork Creek. That was sometime in the late 1970’s. I recall he mentioned that it was being plowed for the first time...

The Scippo-Scioto Earthworks, A newly Discovered Earthwork in Pickaway County, Ohio

Apr 15, 2017 | Earthwork, Ohio, Ohio Archaeology

Jerrel C. Anderson Vienna, West Virginia Introduction The government Agriculture Department aerial photographs taken of the Ohio landscape in 1938 have again proven (Anderson, 1980) to be a fertile ground for the discovery of ancient earthworks. I am preparing a...