Topic ID #8257 - posted 8/3/2010 3:39 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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New finds hint at Fort Ancient's purpose
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
New finds hint at Fort Ancient's purpose
By Eric Bradley • ebradley@enquirer.com • July 31, 2010
OREGONIA - The origin of a timber circle surrounded by the earthen mounds of Fort Ancient is a mystery to archaeologists slowly unearthing its remains, but the site has yielded something remarkable.
Scraping at earth with deer shoulder bones, shifting dirt with sticks, measuring distances with vines and using other rudimentary methods lost to time, the Hopewell tradition Native Americans that constructed the ring 2,000 years ago were able to align the circle's gateway with the rising sun on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.
The astrological find derived from computer modeling is one of the few things archaeologists have discovered that could suggest a use for the circle, named the Moorehead Circle after Warren K. Moorehead. He was a prominent late 19th century and early 20th century archaeologist who helped preserve Fort Ancient, a series of earthworks 3½ miles long built by the Hopewell, the dominant culture in Midwestern and Eastern North America in the first millennium A.D.
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By Eric Bradley • ebradley@enquirer.com • July 31, 2010
OREGONIA - The origin of a timber circle surrounded by the earthen mounds of Fort Ancient is a mystery to archaeologists slowly unearthing its remains, but the site has yielded something remarkable.
Scraping at earth with deer shoulder bones, shifting dirt with sticks, measuring distances with vines and using other rudimentary methods lost to time, the Hopewell tradition Native Americans that constructed the ring 2,000 years ago were able to align the circle's gateway with the rising sun on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.
The astrological find derived from computer modeling is one of the few things archaeologists have discovered that could suggest a use for the circle, named the Moorehead Circle after Warren K. Moorehead. He was a prominent late 19th century and early 20th century archaeologist who helped preserve Fort Ancient, a series of earthworks 3½ miles long built by the Hopewell, the dominant culture in Midwestern and Eastern North America in the first millennium A.D.
Read the rest of the article here.
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