Museum archaeologists spent five field seasons investigating the artifact-rich Heckelman site in Erie County, Ohio.
In conjunction with archaeologists from the University of Toledo and the Firelands Archaeological Research Center in Amherst, field survey and excavations uncovered the remains of a ceremonial center dating to 300 B.C., a small Hopewellian hamlet occupied around A.D. 200, a small Late Woodland village from about A.D. 600, and a stockaded Late Prehistoric settlement occupied at A.D. 1400.
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Relevant publications
Redmond, B. G. 2016. Connecting Heaven and Earth: Interpreting Early Woodland Nonmortuary Ceremonialism in Northern Ohio.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology Vol. 41 No. 1, pp. 41-66. DOI 10.1179/2327427115Y.0000000008
Redmond, B. G. and B. L. Scanlan. 2015. Changes in Pre-Contact Domestic Architecture at the Heckelman Site in Northern Ohio. In
Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Region. University Press of Florida.
Ohio’s Early People: A Local Dig Site Reveals its Secrets. Cleveland Museum of Natural History,
Explore Magazine, Spring 2014, pp. 14-15, 21.
Redmond, B. G. and B. L. Scanlan. 2014
. A Report of Archaeological Investigations at the Heckleman Site (33Er14): 2013 Season. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Archaeological Research Reports, No. 164, 28 pages.
Redmond, B.G. and B. L. Scanlan. 2013
. A Report of Archaeological Investigations at the Heckleman Site (33Er14): 2012 Season. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Archaeological Research Reports, No. 162, 44 pages.
Redmond, B.G. and B. L. Scanlan. 2012.
A Report of Archaeological Investigations at the Heckleman Site (33Er14): 2011 Season. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Archaeological Research Reports, No. 161, 48 pages.
Redmond, B.G. and B. L. Scanlan. 2011.
A Report of Archaeological Investigations at the Heckleman Site (33Er14): 2010 Season. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Archaeological Research Reports, No. 159, 42 pages.
Redmond, B.G. and B. L. Scanlan. 2010.
A Report of Archaeological Investigations at the Heckleman Site (33Er14): 2009 Season. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Archaeological Research Reports, No. 158, 47 pages.
Mangels, John
. Cleveland Museum of Natural History Researchers Uncovering Prehistoric Native American Settlement in Huron County. Cleveland Plain Dealer news article first published July 20, 2009.