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Ongoing Research
The Archaeological
Survey and Survey personnel
are pursuing a number of independent and grant-supported research projects.
The Northeastern
Indiana Paleoindian Project is a research, public outreach, and data
enhancement project focused in Adams, Allen, Huntington, Koscisuko, Wells,
and Whitley counties.
Research on frontier dynamics
during the Late Prehistoric period has been focused in central and northern
Indiana. Four seasons of excavations at Strawtown, in particular,
have produced a wealth of new data about the Late Prehistoric period in
central Indiana.
Research at the Prather site
(12-Cl-4) in Clark County, Indiana, conducted jointly with Cheryl Munson
of Indiana University, was focused on defining this important Mississippian
period site in the Falls of the Ohio region.
Excavations at the Clark's Point site (12-Cl-3) in Clark County, Indiana,
have produced some new data about the Middle and Late Archaic periods in
the Ohio Valley. The report (ROI 302) is available
online.
Geophysical
remote sensing and excavations at the French and Wea Indian village of Kethtippecanunk (12-T-59)
have uncovered numerous 18th century artifacts and the remains of a probable
French trader’s house that was burned in 1791 by the Kentucky militia.
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