Opatrny Village Site

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Opatrny Village Site
File:East from Vineyard Road at Opatrny.jpg
Overview of the site
Opatrny Village Site is located in Ohio
Opatrny Village Site
Location U.S. Route 40 north of the Belmont Hills Country Club[2]
Nearest city St. Clairsville, Ohio
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Area 50 acres (20 ha)
NRHP Reference # 75001323[1]
Added to NRHP May 21, 1975

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.

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

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gray and Pape. National Road/U.S. 40 Historic Properties Inventory in Ohio, Vol. 1. Columbus: Ohio Department of Transportation, 1998-07-02, 65.
  3. ↑ Myers, Thomas P., ed. "Current Research. American Antiquity 45 (1980): 355-376.

Further reading

  • 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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