Archaeology Research

Current Research

Archaeology Department personnel are currently conducting research in these areas:

• Studying Paleoindian bone point technology at Sheriden Cave site in Wyandot County, Ohio
• Studying late prehistoric village settlement patterns at White Fort site near Elyria and the OEC1 site in Independence
• Ceramic analysis of Late Prehistoric Whittlesey and Sandusky tradition assemblages from Northeast Ohio
• Study of the Hartley Mastodon unearthed near Salem, Ohio, in 2001.
• Studying Hopewell collections at various institutions to create reliable estimates of when major Ohio earthworks were built and used to better understand what began and sustained the Hopewell cultural efflorescence
• Analyzing projectile points (arrowheads) from several late prehistoric Native American sites in Ohio
• Studying stone tools from a Southern Neolithic site in India to determine the methods of their manufacture and use and changes in these through time

Select one of the following for additional information about Archaeology Department research:

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