Historical Documents
Historical Documents
Using Squier & Davis and other historical Surveys, Aerial Photos, and documents.
LiDAR/ Light Detection and Ranging /
LiDAR/ Light Detection and Ranging /
Using the latest LiDAR imaging for Earthwork research and visualization.
GIS/ Geographic Information Systems /
GIS/ Geographic Information Systems /
Using Geospatial data for accurate recreation of Earthworks bringing the past to the present.
AR, VR & 3D (Pictured 3D Terrain Model)
AR, VR & 3D (Pictured 3D Terrain Model)
Taking GIS data and transforming it into AR and VR.
I can already do Augmented Reality with Google Earth and Street view where earthworks pass by or through roads.
I am still experimenting with VR.
3D No Problem.
Before Modern Cities
There was a vast Native American Culture in what is now the United States that spanned centuries and millennia that built geometric Earthworks and Mounds. This Culture was first named Adena and later Warren King Moorehead classified Hopewell and Fort Ancient as Classifications of Cultures he named after two of his Archeological sites. These are Cultural Classifications and not People classifications. There are no such things as Adena, Hopewell or Fort Ancient peoples or tribes but rather Adena, Hopewell or Fort Ancient Cultures also referred to as traditions. The correct way would be to say the people of the before mentioned cultures. Just as we would not call people of the Renaissance the Renaissance people or the Baroque people, the Tudor people etc. Adena may be the only cultural clasification describing an actual people. We do not know what these people called themselves but with recent DNA research most mound builders have shown to be primally ancestors of modern day Algonquian speaking decendents. Another Classification is Woodland and Middle Woodland which are archaeological periods describing the time in which these Native American cultures and traditions took place.
Cincinnati Ohio
Showing remnants of an Earthwork discovered in the 1700's.
Some Ohio Valley Tributary Earthworks
(Not to Scale to each other)
Stubs
High Bank
Cedar-Bank
Liberty Township
Dunlaps
Junction Group
Spruce Hill
Milford Earthworks west (Indian Hill)
Frankfort
Newark
Milford
Turner
East Fork
Fortified Hill
Baum
Claw
Works East
Pleasent Run
Butler County Circle
Alexandersville (Dayton)
Marietta
Bournville Circles
Fort Ancient
Portsmouth
Serpent Mound
Granville Works
Tremper
Earthworks
Research and more
Research
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Why am I making this?
I have multiple degrees and majored and minored in many of my interests, Anthropology, Earth Sciences, Computer Science-Networking, and Design I also have a love of Earthworks and the Cultures that created them, so this website is the result of those passions. I believe there needs to be a better public understanding of the Works and their scale, design, and locations so we can help protect and preserve what is left of these cultural wonders. Many of these sites are still being destroyed by development, agriculture, and quarries, mainly because of the lack of knowledge of their locations. Do not use this for looting purposes. I will not be including mortuary mounds on this site for that reason unless they are well-known protected mounds.