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Multi-periodSite Name: Danbury SiteCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 32.742 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:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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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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