Archaeology Research
Current Research
Archaeology Department personnel are currently conducting research in these areas:
• The analysis of Late Woodland (ca. A.D. 1000) burial patterns and long distance exchange of marine shell and cotton fiber at the Danbury site in Ottawa County, Ohio.
• The investigation of Woodland (ca. 300 B.C. to A.D. 600) earthwork enclosures at the Heckleman site in Erie County, Ohio.
• Excavation of a Late Archaic (ca. 2500 B.C. to 1800 B.C.) settlement at the Burrell Orchard site in Lorain County, Ohio.
• The analysis of the late Pleistocene (ca. 11,000 B.C.) Firelands Ground Sloth bones from Huron County, Ohio.
• 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.
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