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<< Other Photo Pages >> Sunwatch - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 27 September 2006  Page Views: 6906

Multi-periodSite Name: Sunwatch Alternative Name: The Incinerator Site
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 2.182 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Dayton, Ohio
Latitude: 39.716100N  Longitude: 84.2319W
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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 1 Ambience:
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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
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Sunwatch submitted by bat400_photo : Sunwatch in Winter Sunwatch Indian Village near Dayton Ohio. Winter landscape photography by Jim Crotty Image copyright: jimcrotty.com (Jim Crotty), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village in Montgomery County, Ohio.
This 800 year old village site on the banks of the Little Miami River was built by people of the Fort Ancient culture and occupied for about 20 years. The circular village, enclosed by a stockade wall, appears to have been laid out on a solar alignment system around a central timber circle.

Sunwatch village is open to the public with a small museum and portions of the site recreated on the original locations where complete excavations were performed.

Sediments laid down by the river covered the site below the plow zone and protected it until expansion of an incinerator development uncovered signs of prehistoric use. When the rescue excavation showed the extent of the site and revealed even the most delicate of remains the city of Dayton worked with archaeologists and involved community volunteers to preserve the site.

Sunwatch website. When at the website there is also a link to a short video on The Archaeology Channel.

Note: Histories of ancient peoples written in their teeth. See comment.
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Histories of ancient peoples written in their teeth by bat400 on Friday, 25 July 2014
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It has been said that “archaeology is anthropology, or it is nothing.” Yet how can archaeologists recover stories from the past as richly detailed as those a cultural anthropologist might hear from a living informant?

It’s easy to see how we might gain insights into some aspects of ancient lives, such as studying stone spear points to understand hunting practices. But how can we hope to discover such things as whether a newly married couple in pre-contact Ohio would go to live in the husband’s or the wife’s village?

Archaeologist Robert Cook and physical anthropologist Scott Aubry, both with Ohio State University, examined the teeth of ancient American Indians from four sites in southwestern Ohio for clues to the changing patterns of where newlyweds chose to live. Their results were published in the current issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Everyone’s teeth are slightly different, but people who are related to one another tend to have similarly shaped teeth.

If the women in a village have more variability in the shape and size of their teeth than the men, one could argue that this diversity was a result of women marrying into the villages of other communities. Likewise, if the men in a village exhibit more variability in their teeth, then it’s likely that they’re the ones marrying into that community.

Cook and Aubry carefully measured teeth from four villages of the Fort Ancient culture in southwestern Ohio, which dates from between A.D. 1000 to 1650. Turpin is the oldest of the villages, followed by Anderson and SunWatch. Madisonville is the most recent.

Cook and Aubry performed a statistical analysis of the data and concluded that the teeth of the Turpin women varied more than the men’s, whereas the teeth of men varied more than the women’s at Anderson and SunWatch. At Madisonville, there was no clear difference between the sexes, but the teeth of both men and women exhibited a lot of variability.

Based on these results, Cook and Aubry concluded that in the earliest Fort Ancient villages, the women married into the men’s villages. This makes sense if they still relied heavily on hunting for their livelihood. Men tend to hunt in groups and would have wanted to stay together in their home communities where they were familiar with the hunting grounds.

By the time of the Anderson and SunWatch sites, Fort Ancient people had shifted to a diet of mostly maize. Since women traditionally have had the primary responsibility for growing crops, it would have been important for them to stay together where they were familiar with the local soils and weather. In later Fort Ancient societies, men moved to their wives’ villages.

Madisonville represents a time of dislocation and depopulation when the rules governing where you were supposed to live after getting married broke down. Fort Ancient folk came from all over the region to live at Madisonville.

Cook and Aubry have shown us how the histories of ancient peoples can be written in their teeth. Archaeology provides the means for recovering those lost stories.

See more of Bradley Lepper's article at The Columbus Dispatch.
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