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Towner Mound: Creating Content and Sparking Curiosity for the Portage County Parks

Bragg, Chloe E
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1797-1263
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430692663

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2015, BS, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Anthropology.
Towner Mound is a Hopewell burial mound in Portage County, Ohio, which is a part of the Hopewell periphery. This thesis describes a project of creating a webpage to document this archaeological site for the Portage Park District in order to increase public awareness and understanding of the site. Towner Mound was excavated in 1932 by Dr. Emerson Greenman from the Ohio Historical and Archaeological Society, now the Ohio History Connection. However, information on what was discovered during this excavation is contradictory and confusing. The mound was re-excavated in 1972 by Kent State University under the direction of Dr. Orrin Shane. This thesis describes my interpretations about the Towner Mound site based on the available information from these excavations and other primary sources. Included in this thesis are both the methods and challenges I faced in creating this webpage but also the research that I gathered about the site. Research about the site is included because this is the first attempt to gather and analyze all of the remaining information on the site. I hope that by including this research it will enable researchers to include this site in further studies of periphery Hopewell sites.
Linda Spurlock (Advisor)
Mark Seeman (Committee Member)
Kiersten Latham (Committee Member)
Leslie Heaphy (Committee Member)
52 p.
Archaeology
anthropology; hopewell; towner mound; public history; portage county; portage park district; hopewell periphery; excavation; lake pippin mound; 33-Po-1

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  • Bragg, C. E. (2015). Towner Mound: Creating Content and Sparking Curiosity for the Portage County Parks [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430692663

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bragg, Chloe. Towner Mound: Creating Content and Sparking Curiosity for the Portage County Parks. 2015. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430692663.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bragg, Chloe. "Towner Mound: Creating Content and Sparking Curiosity for the Portage County Parks." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430692663

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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