Public Lecture: Dr. Brian Redmond’s presentation will focus on the archaeological evidence of the last Native Americans to occupy northeast Ohio prior to the arrival of Europeans. Known archaeologically as the “Whittlesey Tradition,” these societies lived in large villages and depended on maize agriculture, as well as hunting, gathering, and fishing in local streams and Lake Erie. Their many archaeological sites are known from the Lake Erie shoreline at the Pennsylvania border to the Black River Valley in Lorain County. They were essentially a “stone age” culture as revealed by a sophisticated stone and bone tool technology, unique stone and clay smoking pipes, and elaborately decorated pottery vessels. For uncertain reasons, they left Ohio for other parts of the Great Lakes or Midwest about 375 years ago. A guided tour of the Fort Hill earthworks will follow the lecture.