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Miami Fort: An Ancient Hydraulic Structure
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Ballantyne, Marianne R.
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Year and Degree
2009, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Anthropology.
Abstract
Miami Fort, located in southwestern Ohio, is a multicomponent hilltop earthwork approximately nine kilometers in length. Detailed geological analyses demonstrate that the earthwork was a complex gravity-fed hydraulic structure, which channeled spring waters and surface runoff to sites where indigenous plants and cultigens were grown in a highly fertile but drought prone loess soil. Drill core sampling, x-ray diffractometry, high-resolution magnetic susceptibility analysis, and radiocarbon dating demonstrate that the earthwork was built after the Holocene Climatic Optimum and before the Medieval Warming Period. The results of this study suggest that these and perhaps other southern Ohio hilltop earthworks are hydraulic structures rather than fortifications.
Committee
Kenneth B. Tankersley, PhD (Committee Chair)
Vernon L. Scarborough, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
73 p.
Subject Headings
Archaeology
;
Geography
Keywords
Miami Fort
;
Hopewell
;
hilltop enclosure
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Ohio Valley archaeology
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Ballantyne, M. R. (2009).
Miami Fort: An Ancient Hydraulic Structure
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242752728
APA Style (7th edition)
Ballantyne, Marianne.
Miami Fort: An Ancient Hydraulic Structure.
2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242752728.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Ballantyne, Marianne. "Miami Fort: An Ancient Hydraulic Structure." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242752728
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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