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Multi-periodSite Name: Danbury Site
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 38.909 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sandusky, Ohio
Latitude: 41.491700N  Longitude: 82.825W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Village in Ohio.
Various occupation occurred at this site over a period of 4000 years, possibly drawn by the fishing in this estuary of Lake Erie. Dwellings, storage pits, and cemetery date to the Woodland Period. By the late prehistoric period the village was surrounded by a stockade.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Archaeologists study ancient people at Danbury site.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Who were these ancient people who brought their dead to Lake Erie's shore and took care to entomb them with the objects they loved? Why did they return, year after year, to a gentle rise overlooking Sandusky Bay? After occupying the site for more than 40 centuries, why did they vanish before European explorers arrived?

The first inhabitants were still semi-nomadic hunters who may have spent just a few weeks at the lush wetlands site, fishing, catching waterfowl and burying their dead. Later occupants grew maize, built more permanent seasonal settlements, and had more sophisticated burial customs.

After 1000 A.D., Danbury appears to have become a full-fledged village. There are signs of trading with outsiders, long-term food storage, dwellings and, by 1500, what appears to be a protective stockade

Read more about the Danbury site at the Cleveland Museum of Natural Histoy's Archaeology website.

The location given is approximate for the actual village site. This site is on private property but the public has been welcomed periodically to observe the dig when active.

Note: Materials found at Danbury dispute Woodland decline of "Hopewellian" trading network. See comment.
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Archaeology: Materials dispute Woodland decline by bat400 on Monday, 22 November 2010
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Ohio's Late Woodland period, circa A.D. 900 to 1100, traditionally has been considered to be a time of marked cultural decline following the remarkable achievements in art and architecture that characterized the Hopewell culture, circa 100 B.C. to A.D. 400.

Hopewell people ... sought exotic raw materials from the ends of their world. They obtained copper from the upper Great Lakes, mica from the Carolinas, shells from the Gulf of Mexico and obsidian from Wyoming, which artisans crafted into marvelous works of art. Around A.D. 400, however, the Hopewell culture appears to have suffered a collapse. The people no longer made extraordinary efforts to bring exotic goods into Ohio.

However, new evidence from an unexpected source is forcing researchers to rethink this simplistic picture. Scrapings from the teeth of four Late Woodland people buried along Lake Erie in Ottawa County reveal that some exotic materials continued to find their way into this region centuries after the Hopewellian "collapse."

Ohio State University graduate student Samantha Blatt and several other colleagues discovered cotton fibers embedded in the dental calculus, or tartar, of the teeth of three men and one woman from the Danbury site. (Co-author Brian Redmond of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History excavated the burials between 2004 and 2005.)

Calculus consists of mineral deposits on teeth in which tiny bits of food or other matter can become fossilized. By scraping off the calculus and examining it under high-powered magnification, particles embedded in it can be identified, providing important clues to the diet of ancient people.

Blatt and her colleagues were surprised for two reasons.

First, cotton does not grow as far north as the Ohio Valley. The Danbury cotton had to have come from somewhere in the Deep South. The closest contemporary sources of cotton were in the southwestern United States or along the coast of northeastern Mexico.

Second, researchers were looking for traces of ancient diet, but cotton isn't a food plant. Finding it in the calculus of human teeth indicates that the folks from the Danbury site were using their teeth to work the cotton fibers into textiles nets, or perhaps fishing line.

Reporting the results in the forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Blatt and her co-authors conclude that "the cultural implications of this discovery are far-reaching and could suggest long-range interaction between either Southwestern Pueblo groups or northern Mesoamerican societies, and groups living in northern Ohio during the Late Woodland period."

These new data do not mean that the Late Woodland cultures of Ohio were as obsessed with the acquisition of exotic raw materials as were their Hopewellian predecessors. It does show us, however, that they were more cosmopolitan than we previously suspected.

And new discoveries, almost certainly, will continue to surprise us.



Source: Bradley T. Lepper's article in the Columbus Dispatch.
Article submitted by coldrum.
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