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Judi Lynn

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Fri Apr 7, 2023, 12:42 AM Apr 2023

Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old dwelling site of Hopewell Native Americans in Ohio

Story by Jack Wolf • Yesterday 2:40 PM

Archaeologists have uncovered artifacts Native Americans left nearby nearly 2,000 years ago in Newark, Ohio, including pottery, oven fragments and tools.

"They're just absolutely beautiful," said Andrew Sewell, senior historian and principal investigator at Lawhon & Associates in Columbus, an environmental engineering firm, describing the semi-translucent flint tools.

Through extensive surveys and analysis, Sewell determined that a Hopewell family likely inhabited the excavation site in what became the front yard of a house at the corner of Reddington Road and Thornwood Drive.

The discovery was made at a construction site where workers are building a temporary bridge. The bridge will allow them to reopen a crossing, Cherry Valley Road crossing, that abruptly closed in October.

More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/archaeologists-discover-2-000-year-old-dwelling-site-of-hopewell-native-americans-in-ohio/ar-AA19yV0q

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