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Revising and Re-sizing History: New Work Shows Ohio Site to Be Ancient Water Works, Not a Fort

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Date: Carey Hoff­man, Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati News
Dis­cov­er­ies made by Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati researchers this sum­mer at a hill­top site west of Cincin­nati turn a long-accepted his­tor­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tion of how the site served the Shawnee peo­ple upside down.
The site known as Miami Fort is no fort at all, and it is also much larger than pre­vi­ously believed  –  so […]

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Shawnee Lookout May Be Largest Continuously Occupied Hilltop Native American Site In United States

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Sci­enceDaily (Sep. 4, 2009)
The dis­cov­er­ies con­tinue to sur­prise for a team of Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati stu­dents dig­ging in Ohio’s Shawnee Look­out Park, with a major new mound being located and a rare kiln used to fire pot­tery exca­vated in recent weeks, along with even more evi­dence emerg­ing to sup­port the the­ory that the site could […]

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Underwater Expedition Delivers Key Findings In Search For Evidence Of Early Americans

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Sci­enceDaily (Sep. 1, 2009)
In one of the more dra­matic moments of an under­wa­ter archae­o­log­i­cal sur­vey co-led by Mer­cy­hurst Col­lege archae­ol­o­gist James Adova­sio along Florida’s Gulf Coast this sum­mer, Andy Hem­mings stood on an inun­dated river’s edge where man hasn’t set foot in more than 13,000 years.Donning full scuba gear, Hem­mings stood in 130 feet of […]

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