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CHAPTER TWELVE Fort Hill 1964: new data and reflections on Hopewell hilltop enclosures in southern Ohio
ohio hopewell community organization • Kent, Ohio • Published In 1997 • Pages: 311-327
By: Prufer, Olaf H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Prufer writes of his excavations at Fort Hill in June 1964. He describes the stratigraphy of the trench through an outer wall of the Fort Hill enclosure. Excavations at other enclosures are described. These enclosures also show more than one construction episode and some similarities in wall construction (earth core with a pavement of flat stones ontop of that). Prufer states, 'I would interpret the hill top enclosures not so much as fortifications… but as refuges in times of trouble similar to the European Fliehburg structures of the Bronze and Iron Ages…' (pages 320).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Construction
- Earth moving
- Masonry
- Public structures
- Military installations
- Sacred objects and places
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hopewell
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2100 BP-1650 BP (100 B.C.-350 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fort Hill; Ohio, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Olaf H. Prufer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-327)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96027659
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopewell culture