The Ohio Archaeology Blog is moving! From now on, you can find us on WordPress at the new and improved Ohio Archaeology Blog ! We hope you'll continue to follow us and keep up-to-date on Ohio...
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In the Spring 2013 issue of the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , already featured in this blog for the article on Newark archaeoastronomy , Chris Carr , an archaeologist at Arizona State...
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Ray Hively and Robert Horn, the archaeoastronomers who first made the case that the Newark Earthworks encoded the principal alignments of the 18.6-year long lunar cycle in its geometrical a...
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Ohio flora blogger A. L. Gibson has been a guest blogger on our site once before. This time his blog is not about plants, but a rare observation of interaction between two species of snakes....
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In my last blog post , I mentioned that the natural history collections at the Ohio Historical Society used to be stored in the “Synoptic Room.” This was a time when the Society’s collecti...
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This Thursday, July 18th, you have the chance to visit the ongoing investigation in search of a 1750's English traders compound at the Miami Indian village of Pickawillany. For additional inf...
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"It is the duty of the International Community to protect places of outstanding universal value." The UNESCO World Heritage List was created to honor special places of transcendent natural or c...
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No one ever accused me of being in tune with style, or hip, or cool, or whatever adjective might be right for the “in thing.” I’ve never been one to be synchronized with public opinion abou...
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From July 1-3, the United States engaged in a battle in Pennsylvania that would ultimately lead to the high-water mark in the American Civil War at a place called Gettysburg. While many enli...
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Is it a patio, the floor of an outbuilding, or just a dry place to get out of a carriage? Or is it something else entirely? The Ohio Historical Society archaeologists discovered this paveme...
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Today at the Ohio History Center we gathered to celebrate the designation of the Adena Effigy Pipe as Ohio's State Artifact! We celebrated the pipe itself, a masterpiece of ancient North...
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Among the exotic materials collected by the Hopewell and used by their artisans to craft ornaments of iconic beauty none are more exotic than the chunks of iron, alloyed with nickel, that or...
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The archaeological investigation of the Moorehead Circle at the Fort Ancient Earthworks continues this summer. Dr. Robert Riordan, a core of dedicated volunteers, and students from the Wright...
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The Adena Pipe recently became the official state artifact of Ohio. This 2,000 year-old hallmark of the ancient Adena Culture was as significant to the First Ohioans as it is fascinating to mo...
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You have two opportunities in July to attend presentations I’m giving on Ohio’s most amazing archaeological mysteries! On July 8th, I am speaking at the Coshocton Public Library on O...
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“Nature News & Comment,” an online newsletter, published an article on 17 June 2013 by Sharon Oosthoek about a recent study from Europe and Australia regarding the impact of pesticides on aq...
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In today’s Columbus Dispatch , Dale Gnidovec , curator of the Orton Geological Museum at the Ohio State University, describes the source of the raw material from which some exceptiona...
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Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is pleased to host the summer 2013 archeological lecture series. The following is a list of speakers and titles of topics to be presented. The pro...
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On the Ohio Archaeological Council's website , Columbus School for Girls' teachers Charlotte Stiverson and Tracy Kessler describe how their students persevered over three years to make the Ad...
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The May issue of the SAA Archaeological Record , the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology, has a terrific “Special Forum,” which the editor, Jane Eva Baxter, describes as “a...
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The Archaeology and Natural History Staff is pleased to welcome Emily Lang to the Ohio Historical Society as a new Curator of History. Actually, Emily is not entirely new to OHS. As a student sh...
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LETTERS TO A YOUNG SCIENTIST: A RESPONSE TO BRAD’S BLOG POST : I’ll have to add this book to my reading list. I thoroughly enjoyed Wilson’s 2006 autobiography, Naturalist, as well as seve...
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I highly recommend E. O. Wilson’s latest book, Letters to a Young Scientist , to any young scientist, anyone contemplating a career in science, anyone currently engaged in science regardless o...
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