Mar 27, 2022 | Archaic, Circleville, Earthwork, Hopewell, Ohio, Ohio Archaeology
Jerrel C. Anderson Vienna, West Virginia It was my good fortune to live in Circleville, Ohio, from 1967 to 1977, when farmers were still tilling their fields with mold-board plows, and this, in combination with rains and friendly farmers, allowed for wonderful...
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...
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...
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...
Dec 1, 2011 | Circleville, Ohio, Ohio Archaeology
published by the Ohio Archaeologist, Vol. 61, No. 1, Winter 2011 It is time to restore the Circleville earthwork to its former vaunted stature — time to undo the damage done to the reputation of this remarkable earthwork by no other than E. G. Squier and E. Davis...
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