The Opatrny Village Site is an ancient village site dating from AD 1000–1600. The site was inhabited by the Monongahela culture and is a contemporary with the Fort Ancient cultural way of life. The property was placed on the National Register on 1975-05-21.
Opatrny Village Site | |
 Overview of the site | |
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| Location | U.S. Route 40 north of the Belmont Hills Country Club[2] |
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| Nearest city | St. Clairsville, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 40°4′29″N 80°56′36″W / 40.07472°N 80.94333°W |
| Area | 50 acres (20 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001323[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 21, 1975 |
The extent of the site has not been fully determined as the artifacts lie in occupational debris over 1.5 feet thick. The site has been used as a pasture and remains largely intact. The property was placed to protect the integrity of the site from a highway project.
Around 1980, an extensive excavation was carried out at Opatrny; the information that it yielded was seen as highly significant in understanding the ways that local cultures changed and developed their surrounding terrain.[3]: 367–368 Despite its location along U.S. Route 40, the village remains less disturbed by modern development than most surrounding terrain.[2]
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Gray and Pape. National Road/U.S. 40 Historic Properties Inventory in Ohio Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 1. Columbus: Ohio Department of Transportation, 1998-07-02, 65.
- ^ Myers, Thomas P., ed. "Current Research. American Antiquity 45 (1980): 355-376.
Further reading
edit- Ohio Historical Society, Division of Archeology; The Opatrny Village Site; Ohio Historical Society; Columbus, Ohio 1974
- "Radiocarbon Information from Eastern Ohio and a Summary of the Late Prehistoric Occupation at the Opatrny Village Site". Ohio Archaeologist 29.2 (1979): 40–41.
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