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Mounds, Ditches, and Earthen Embankments: Archaeological and Geophysical Investigations at the Fort Hill Earthwork Complex

Mary Schiller Myers School of Art -Folk Hall Auditorium, University of Akron 150 E Exchange St, Akron, OH, United States

Geophysical and archaeological investigations were conducted for the past two years at the Fort Hill Earthwork Complex located in the Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. Our investigations have not only revealed when the earthwork was created and by which prehistoric culture group, but we also have uncovered data to suggest how they were […]

Reverse Engineering the Past: How Experimental Archaeology Provides the Clues for Understanding the Mysterious Demise of North America’s Copper Culture

Mary Schiller Myers School of Art -Folk Hall Auditorium, University of Akron 150 E Exchange St, Akron, OH, United States

The Old Copper Culture (4000-1000 B.C.) stands out as a unique event in archaeologists’ global understanding of ancient metallurgy—here, copper metallurgy developed, but then “disappeared”. For over three millennia, Archaic hunter-gatherers around the North American Great Lakes made utilitarian implements out of copper, only for these items to decline in prominence during the Archaic to […]

Reconsidering Akron’s Historic John Brown House: New Evidence from Geophysical Surveys and Archaeological Excavations

Mary Schiller Myers School of Art -Folk Hall Auditorium, University of Akron 150 E Exchange St, Akron, OH, United States

The historic John Brown House in Akron, Ohio was built in 1830 and was originally occupied by one of Akron’s wealthiest residents, Gen. Simon Perkins. In 1844, the house was rented to John Brown and his family who were moving to Akron to form a business partnership in the wool trade. This partnership was to […]

Hopewellians in a Non-Hopewellian World: The rise of elaborate ceremonialism and long range interaction in precontact northern Ohio

Mary Schiller Myers School of Art -Folk Hall Auditorium, University of Akron 150 E Exchange St, Akron, OH, United States

Brian G. Redmond, Ph.D. is Curator and John Otis Hower Chair of Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He is a native Clevelander and joined the Museum in 1994. Dr. Redmond received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Indiana University in 1990 and began studies in Anthropology at the University of Toledo where he […]

Pilfering the Past: A Look Behind the Scenes of a Lawsuit to Recover Stolen Antiquities

In 2017, the Republic of Turkey filed a lawsuit in federal court against auction house Christie’s and billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt for the return of an allegedly looted female figurine dating to the Chalcolithic era. The female idol is distinctive of works produced in the ceramic workshops of Kiliya in Western Anatolia between 3000 and […]

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