The Voss Site

On a terrace bench overlooking Big Darby Creek, people of the Fort Ancient Culture constructed a large circular village with a central plaza and a low earthen mound on the plaza's edge to commemorate the burial location of important members of their community. The site is one of the northern-most Fort Ancient sites and was occupied more than once during the period ca. A.D. 1100-1440 by Fort Ancient populations practicing maize agriculture. During the later half of that period, these populations intercropped maize, beans, and squash, supplemented their diet with deer and wild turkey, and made use of the creek's extensive resources, including freshwater mussels, fish, waterfowl, and turtle species. Remote sensing techniques such as magnetometry have recently been used to map the village settlement and build on knowledge gained from excavation of the mound and part of the village in the 1960s by the Ohio Historical Society.

Ohio · United States