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December 20, 2024

Objects from the Octagon: Archaeological Collections and the Stories They Share

Beginning on January 1st, 2025, The Octagon Earthworks will be open to the public daily for the first time in over a century. What is known today as the Octagon Earthworks is a preserved section of geometric earthworks, including the Octagon, the Observatory Circle, and the Observatory Mound, once part of the larger Newark Earthworks […]

November 14, 2023

Bring Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks World Heritage Sites to Your Students

This writer was traveling in Iceland last week and stopped by Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. When I chatted with their staff and told them I worked as a historian in Ohio, they immediately responded “Oh, you just got a new World Heritage site last month! Congratulations!” News travels fast if, even […]

October 25, 2021

Ohio’s Indigenous History is Part of Everyone’s History

November is National Native American Heritage Month. Dr. Brad Lepper highlights some of the achievements of Ohio's indigenous history.

February 26, 2021

Hopewell earthworks tell only part of this amazing ancient American Indian story

May 23, 2020

The Great Cache of Hornstone Discs from the Hopewell Mound Group, Ross County, Ohio and Just Who is That Girl?

April 26, 2017

Objects from the Octagon: Archaeological Collections and the Stories They Share

Bring Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks World Heritage Sites to Your Students

Ohio’s Indigenous History is Part of Everyone’s History

Hopewell earthworks tell only part of this amazing ancient American Indian story

The Great Cache of Hornstone Discs from the Hopewell Mound Group, Ross County, Ohio and Just Who is That Girl?

Welcome World Heritage Sites Catalogers

Junction Earthworks Grand Opening

Current Research: 3D scanning of Obsidian Bifaces

HOPEWELL USE OF METEORITIC IRON