Before the early American settlers moved into Ohio in the 1780s, the region was home to ancient Mound Builders and Native American tribes.

In this uneven work, Treese combines a fairly extensive survey of writings on American mound builders with sketches of her own field trips and other tangential materials. After describing a 1987 ...

Former Circleville resident Jerrel C. Anderson is a longtime researcher on the archaeology of the Midwest and is a member of multiple archaeological societies in Ohio and West Virginia. At the Ohio ...

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SHEBOYGAN — Well before white man came to North America, around 700 B.C., big changes happened when plants and animals were intentionally cared for. Early communities rose out of Woodland Indians of ...

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At an archeological dig in the Midwest, a party of university scientists are unearthing vestiges of a lost indigenous civilization. They are joined by family, associates, and an outsider with ulterior ...

For many of the indigenous tribes of North America, ceremonial bunes containing an assortment of sacred objects were, and in some cases continue to be, an important part of their religious lives. As ...

It was a curious skull that some grave-openers in Ohio stood gazing upon last week. It bore a copper nose, supplied by a mortician who evidently knew that cartilage decays and that one would not want ...