Archeological Fieldwork in Ross County Ohio Hopeton Earthworks
By Jarrod Burks and Dawn Walter

Jarrod Burks is a professional archaeologist who works for Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc., a private archaeology firm in Columbus, Ohio that does traditional NHPA/Section 106 archaeology and a wide range of archaeological geophysics surveys. Jarrod received his PhD and MA degrees in anthropology (archaeology) from The Ohio State University and his BA degree in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. One of his great passions is relocating ancient earthwork sites through geophysical survey. To that end he has surveyed several dozen of these earthwork sites in Ohio, making numerous unique discoveries, including finding previously unknown sites. Jarrod is the president and a founder of the Heartland Earthworks Conservancy (www.earthworksconservancy.org), and the treasurer of the Midwest Archaeological Conference.