Bradley T Lepper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 134502 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bradley T Lepper |
| NOMBRES | Bradley T |
| APELLIDO | Lepper |
| FIRMA | LEPPER B T |
| AFILIACIONES | Ohio History Connection |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2312-3604 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Ohio Rock Art and Serpent Mound
James Swauger's study of Ohio's rock art, Petroglyphs of Ohio, has been the definitive guide to the subject since its publication in 1984. Swauger concluded that the Indigenous American Indian petroglyphs were created during the late precontact period and proposed that the makers of the designs were “proto-Shawnee,” but he deliberately eschewed any attempt to attribute meanings to the designs. Building on Swauger's work, we consider Ohio rock art…
Late Holocene radiocarbon dates for the Welling site (33CS441)
Great Serpent Mound and the Milky Way
.
The Newark Holy Stones
The Center for the Future of Museums, in its TrendsWatch 2019 report, identified “Truth, Trust, and Fake News” as key issues for museums to address. Fraudulent artifacts bearing Hebrew inscriptions were planted in Ohio mounds in the 1800s as fake news to promote a combined political, scientific, and religious agenda. Two of these so-called Newark “Holy Stones” are among the most celebrated objects in the collections of the Johnson-Humrickhouse Mu…
Effigy mounds and rock art of midcontinental North America
The effigy mounds of the Upper Midwest and the Ohio Valley long have been regarded as distinct and independent cultural developments. A review of effigy mound iconography in both regions reveals similarities suggesting that they are elements of a shared cultural tradition. Comparisons with rock art imagery from the Upper Midwest and Missouri, the inferred centers of this artistic and ceremonial florescence, reveal co-occurrences of specific motif…
Lithic Resource Procurement and Early Paleoindian Land Use Patterns in the Appalachian Plateau of Ohio
The record of the Early Paleoindian occupation of eastern North America is scanty and cryptic. Throughout most of this region it has been described as consisting predominantly of widely scattered, though relatively numerous, isolated finds of diagnostic fluted projectile points. Quarry sites were located at the outcrops of chert "in the relatively inaccessible and dissected hills above the Walhonding River", whereas workshop sites were situated "…
Hopewell Culture, Archaeology of the
Debating the Age of Serpent Mound
The debate over the age of Serpent Mound (33AD01) is important because without a cultural context it is impossible to make meaningful statements about what this monumental effigy mound might have meant to its builders. In this response to Romain and Herrmann’s rejoinder, we clarify the provenience of the samples, which yielded the radiocarbon dates that contribute to our argument for a post–Late Woodland age for the effigy. In addition, we extend…
Hopewell Culture, Archaeology of the
Analyses of organic residue from a conical pipe from the Niles-Wolford Mound (33Pi3), Pickaway County, Ohio
Drums Along the Scioto
On the Age of Serpent Mound
Radiocarbon dates reported by Romain and colleagues (2017) suggesting that Serpent Mound (33AD1) is an Adena effigy mound are problematic because they cannot be linked reliably to cultural activities associated with the original construction of the effigy mound. Additional arguments offered by Romain and colleagues (2017) in support of an Early Woodland age for Serpent Mound also are unconvincing. A Late Prehistoric age for Serpent Mound is suppo…
Debating the Age of Serpent Mound
The debate over the age of Serpent Mound (33AD01) is important because without a cultural context it is impossible to make meaningful statements about what this monumental effigy mound might have meant to its builders. In this response to Romain and Herrmann’s rejoinder, we clarify the provenience of the samples, which yielded the radiocarbon dates that contribute to our argument for a post–Late Woodland age for the effigy. In addition, we extend…
On the Age of Serpent Mound
Radiocarbon dates reported by Romain and colleagues (2017) suggesting that Serpent Mound (33AD1) is an Adena effigy mound are problematic because they cannot be linked reliably to cultural activities associated with the original construction of the effigy mound. Additional arguments offered by Romain and colleagues (2017) in support of an Early Woodland age for Serpent Mound also are unconvincing. A Late Prehistoric age for Serpent Mound is suppo…
Arguments for the Age of Serpent Mound
Serpent Mound, in northern Adams County, Ohio, USA, is one of the most iconic symbols of ancient America and yet there is no widely agreed upon date for the age of its original construction. Some archaeologists consider it to have been built by the Adena culture around 300bc, while others contend it was built by the Fort Ancient culture aroundad1100. There have been three attempts to obtain radiometric ages for the effigy, but they have yielded i…
Ancestral Voices
In a moving foreword to Jay Miller’s book Ancestral Voices, the late Alfred Berryhill, past second chief of the Creek Nation, writes about the Creeks’ ongoing tradition of mound building. He shares his hope that all Creeks might someday “come together to build a modern great mound,” which would express “shared effort, community wellness, and beloved heritage” (ix). For Miller, this is proof that “glimpses of their Mississippian past survive among…
Radiocarbon Dates on Textile and Bark Samples from the Central Grave of the Adena Mound (33RO1), Chillicothe, Ohio
The Adena Mound (33RO1) is the type site of the Adena culture, yet there have been no radiocarbon dates to place it reliably within a temporal framework. Fortunately, the artifact collection, curated by the Ohio Historical Society, includes objects that are highly suitable for radiocarbon dating, including fragments of textiles and tree bark associated with the central burial. We selected a textile fragment and two bark fragments for radiocarbon …
Jay Custer's Hyperreality
My relations with the Indians of [Cochiti] are very friendly. Sharing their food, their hardships, and their pleasures simple as they are, a mutual attachment has formed itself, which grows into sincere affection. ...On the whole they are the best people the sun shines upon (Adolph Bandelier, quoted in Thomas, 1998:59)
Alligator Mound
Alligator Mound is an animal effigy mound in central Ohio, USA. Since Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis first recorded and mapped it in 1848, many have speculated regarding its age and meaning, but with remarkably little systematic archaeological investigation. Many scholars have assumed the Hopewell culture (c. 100 BC-AD 400) built the mound, based principally on its proximity to the Newark Earthworks. The Hopewell culture, however, is not known to…
Geomorphic and pedogenic evidence for bioturbation of artifacts at a multicomponent site in Licking County, Ohio, U.S.A.
The distribution of artifacts at the multi-component (Paleoindian through Middle Woodland) Munson Springs site (33Li251) is best explained by downward migration of objects through bioturbation processes rather than by a vertical sequence of occupation surfaces through a period of sediment accretion. At the noncultivated, 1800 m2, footslope site, the distribution of glacial diamict, loess, and drift- and bedrock-derived colluvium indicate widespre…
Intestinal contents of a late Pleistocene mastodont from midcontinental north America
Salvage excavations of a nearly complete and remarkably well-preserved skeleton of an American mastodont ( Mammut americanum ) in Licking County, Ohio, yielded a discrete, cylindrical mass of plant material found in association with articulated vertebrae and associated ribs. This material is interpreted as intestinal contents of the mastodont and paleobotanical analyses indicate that the mastodont diet included significant amounts of low, herbace…
Early Paleo-Indian Foragers of Midcontinental North America
A survey of private and public collections produced information on 410 fluted point yielding localities within a single county in east central Ohio. Analysis of techno-functional attributes of the fluted points resulted in the definition of four general settlement types including large and small workshop/occupations, chert processing loci, and food procurement/processing loci. The distribution of these loci in relation to various features of the …
Radiocarbon Dates on Textile and Bark Samples from the Central Grave of the Adena Mound (33RO1), Chillicothe, Ohio
The Adena Mound (33RO1) is the type site of the Adena culture, yet there have been no radiocarbon dates to place it reliably within a temporal framework. Fortunately, the artifact collection, curated by the Ohio Historical Society, includes objects that are highly suitable for radiocarbon dating, including fragments of textiles and tree bark associated with the central burial. We selected a textile fragment and two bark fragments for radiocarbon …
Drums Along the Scioto
Debating the Age of Serpent Mound
The debate over the age of Serpent Mound (33AD01) is important because without a cultural context it is impossible to make meaningful statements about what this monumental effigy mound might have meant to its builders. In this response to Romain and Herrmann’s rejoinder, we clarify the provenience of the samples, which yielded the radiocarbon dates that contribute to our argument for a post–Late Woodland age for the effigy. In addition, we extend…
Arguments for the Age of Serpent Mound
Serpent Mound, in northern Adams County, Ohio, USA, is one of the most iconic symbols of ancient America and yet there is no widely agreed upon date for the age of its original construction. Some archaeologists consider it to have been built by the Adena culture around 300bc, while others contend it was built by the Fort Ancient culture aroundad1100. There have been three attempts to obtain radiometric ages for the effigy, but they have yielded i…
Alligator Mound
Alligator Mound is an animal effigy mound in central Ohio, USA. Since Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis first recorded and mapped it in 1848, many have speculated regarding its age and meaning, but with remarkably little systematic archaeological investigation. Many scholars have assumed the Hopewell culture (c. 100 BC-AD 400) built the mound, based principally on its proximity to the Newark Earthworks. The Hopewell culture, however, is not known to…
Early Paleo-Indian Foragers of Midcontinental North America
A survey of private and public collections produced information on 410 fluted point yielding localities within a single county in east central Ohio. Analysis of techno-functional attributes of the fluted points resulted in the definition of four general settlement types including large and small workshop/occupations, chert processing loci, and food procurement/processing loci. The distribution of these loci in relation to various features of the …
On the Age of Serpent Mound
Radiocarbon dates reported by Romain and colleagues (2017) suggesting that Serpent Mound (33AD1) is an Adena effigy mound are problematic because they cannot be linked reliably to cultural activities associated with the original construction of the effigy mound. Additional arguments offered by Romain and colleagues (2017) in support of an Early Woodland age for Serpent Mound also are unconvincing. A Late Prehistoric age for Serpent Mound is suppo…
Effigy mounds and rock art of midcontinental North America
The effigy mounds of the Upper Midwest and the Ohio Valley long have been regarded as distinct and independent cultural developments. A review of effigy mound iconography in both regions reveals similarities suggesting that they are elements of a shared cultural tradition. Comparisons with rock art imagery from the Upper Midwest and Missouri, the inferred centers of this artistic and ceremonial florescence, reveal co-occurrences of specific motif…
Analyses of organic residue from a conical pipe from the Niles-Wolford Mound (33Pi3), Pickaway County, Ohio
Early Paleo-Indian Foragers of Midcontinental North America
A survey of private and public collections produced information on 410 fluted point yielding localities within a single county in east central Ohio. Analysis of techno-functional attributes of the fluted points resulted in the definition of four general settlement types including large and small workshop/occupations, chert processing loci, and food procurement/processing loci. The distribution of these loci in relation to various features of the …
Intestinal contents of a late Pleistocene mastodont from midcontinental north America
Salvage excavations of a nearly complete and remarkably well-preserved skeleton of an American mastodont ( Mammut americanum ) in Licking County, Ohio, yielded a discrete, cylindrical mass of plant material found in association with articulated vertebrae and associated ribs. This material is interpreted as intestinal contents of the mastodont and paleobotanical analyses indicate that the mastodont diet included significant amounts of low, herbace…
Geomorphic and pedogenic evidence for bioturbation of artifacts at a multicomponent site in Licking County, Ohio, U.S.A.
The distribution of artifacts at the multi-component (Paleoindian through Middle Woodland) Munson Springs site (33Li251) is best explained by downward migration of objects through bioturbation processes rather than by a vertical sequence of occupation surfaces through a period of sediment accretion. At the noncultivated, 1800 m2, footslope site, the distribution of glacial diamict, loess, and drift- and bedrock-derived colluvium indicate widespre…
Alligator Mound
Alligator Mound is an animal effigy mound in central Ohio, USA. Since Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis first recorded and mapped it in 1848, many have speculated regarding its age and meaning, but with remarkably little systematic archaeological investigation. Many scholars have assumed the Hopewell culture (c. 100 BC-AD 400) built the mound, based principally on its proximity to the Newark Earthworks. The Hopewell culture, however, is not known to…
Jay Custer's Hyperreality
My relations with the Indians of [Cochiti] are very friendly. Sharing their food, their hardships, and their pleasures simple as they are, a mutual attachment has formed itself, which grows into sincere affection. ...On the whole they are the best people the sun shines upon (Adolph Bandelier, quoted in Thomas, 1998:59)
Radiocarbon Dates on Textile and Bark Samples from the Central Grave of the Adena Mound (33RO1), Chillicothe, Ohio
The Adena Mound (33RO1) is the type site of the Adena culture, yet there have been no radiocarbon dates to place it reliably within a temporal framework. Fortunately, the artifact collection, curated by the Ohio Historical Society, includes objects that are highly suitable for radiocarbon dating, including fragments of textiles and tree bark associated with the central burial. We selected a textile fragment and two bark fragments for radiocarbon …
Ancestral Voices
In a moving foreword to Jay Miller’s book Ancestral Voices, the late Alfred Berryhill, past second chief of the Creek Nation, writes about the Creeks’ ongoing tradition of mound building. He shares his hope that all Creeks might someday “come together to build a modern great mound,” which would express “shared effort, community wellness, and beloved heritage” (ix). For Miller, this is proof that “glimpses of their Mississippian past survive among…
Hopewell Culture, Archaeology of the
Analyses of organic residue from a conical pipe from the Niles-Wolford Mound (33Pi3), Pickaway County, Ohio
Drums Along the Scioto
On the Age of Serpent Mound
Radiocarbon dates reported by Romain and colleagues (2017) suggesting that Serpent Mound (33AD1) is an Adena effigy mound are problematic because they cannot be linked reliably to cultural activities associated with the original construction of the effigy mound. Additional arguments offered by Romain and colleagues (2017) in support of an Early Woodland age for Serpent Mound also are unconvincing. A Late Prehistoric age for Serpent Mound is suppo…
Debating the Age of Serpent Mound
The debate over the age of Serpent Mound (33AD01) is important because without a cultural context it is impossible to make meaningful statements about what this monumental effigy mound might have meant to its builders. In this response to Romain and Herrmann’s rejoinder, we clarify the provenience of the samples, which yielded the radiocarbon dates that contribute to our argument for a post–Late Woodland age for the effigy. In addition, we extend…
On the Age of Serpent Mound
Radiocarbon dates reported by Romain and colleagues (2017) suggesting that Serpent Mound (33AD1) is an Adena effigy mound are problematic because they cannot be linked reliably to cultural activities associated with the original construction of the effigy mound. Additional arguments offered by Romain and colleagues (2017) in support of an Early Woodland age for Serpent Mound also are unconvincing. A Late Prehistoric age for Serpent Mound is suppo…
Arguments for the Age of Serpent Mound
Serpent Mound, in northern Adams County, Ohio, USA, is one of the most iconic symbols of ancient America and yet there is no widely agreed upon date for the age of its original construction. Some archaeologists consider it to have been built by the Adena culture around 300bc, while others contend it was built by the Fort Ancient culture aroundad1100. There have been three attempts to obtain radiometric ages for the effigy, but they have yielded i…
Debating the Age of Serpent Mound
The debate over the age of Serpent Mound (33AD01) is important because without a cultural context it is impossible to make meaningful statements about what this monumental effigy mound might have meant to its builders. In this response to Romain and Herrmann’s rejoinder, we clarify the provenience of the samples, which yielded the radiocarbon dates that contribute to our argument for a post–Late Woodland age for the effigy. In addition, we extend…
Hopewell Culture, Archaeology of the
Lithic Resource Procurement and Early Paleoindian Land Use Patterns in the Appalachian Plateau of Ohio
The record of the Early Paleoindian occupation of eastern North America is scanty and cryptic. Throughout most of this region it has been described as consisting predominantly of widely scattered, though relatively numerous, isolated finds of diagnostic fluted projectile points. Quarry sites were located at the outcrops of chert "in the relatively inaccessible and dissected hills above the Walhonding River", whereas workshop sites were situated "…
Late Holocene radiocarbon dates for the Welling site (33CS441)
Great Serpent Mound and the Milky Way
.
The Newark Holy Stones
The Center for the Future of Museums, in its TrendsWatch 2019 report, identified “Truth, Trust, and Fake News” as key issues for museums to address. Fraudulent artifacts bearing Hebrew inscriptions were planted in Ohio mounds in the 1800s as fake news to promote a combined political, scientific, and religious agenda. Two of these so-called Newark “Holy Stones” are among the most celebrated objects in the collections of the Johnson-Humrickhouse Mu…
Effigy mounds and rock art of midcontinental North America
The effigy mounds of the Upper Midwest and the Ohio Valley long have been regarded as distinct and independent cultural developments. A review of effigy mound iconography in both regions reveals similarities suggesting that they are elements of a shared cultural tradition. Comparisons with rock art imagery from the Upper Midwest and Missouri, the inferred centers of this artistic and ceremonial florescence, reveal co-occurrences of specific motif…
Ohio Rock Art and Serpent Mound
James Swauger's study of Ohio's rock art, Petroglyphs of Ohio, has been the definitive guide to the subject since its publication in 1984. Swauger concluded that the Indigenous American Indian petroglyphs were created during the late precontact period and proposed that the makers of the designs were “proto-Shawnee,” but he deliberately eschewed any attempt to attribute meanings to the designs. Building on Swauger's work, we consider Ohio rock art…
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