Fort Ancient culture
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The Fort Ancient culture was a Late Prehistoric Native American society of the Ohio Valley known for its maize-based agriculture, village settlements, and distinctive pottery, often considered related to or influenced by Mississippian cultural traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fort Ancient culture canonical | 4 |
Statements (77)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Late Prehistoric Native American culture
ⓘ
archaeological culture ⓘ pre-Columbian culture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Shawnee
ⓘ
surface form:
historic Shawnee (debated)
protohistoric Native American groups ⓘ |
| basedOn | maize agriculture ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distinctFrom | Mississippian culture ⓘ |
| followedBy | historic Native American tribes in the Ohio Valley ⓘ |
| hasArtifactType |
gorgets
ⓘ
ground stone tools ⓘ shell beads ⓘ stone pipes ⓘ triangular projectile points ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
central plazas in villages
ⓘ
circular and oval house patterns ⓘ communal structures ⓘ cordmarked pottery ⓘ distinctive shell-tempered pottery ⓘ evidence of social stratification debated ⓘ hunting and gathering supplementing agriculture ⓘ incised and stamped pottery decoration ⓘ intensive horticulture ⓘ palisaded villages ⓘ semi-subterranean houses ⓘ stockaded hilltop villages ⓘ use of bone tools ⓘ use of shell ornaments ⓘ use of stone tools ⓘ village-based settlement pattern ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
exchange of chert and stone materials
ⓘ
exchange of marine shell ⓘ regional trade ⓘ |
| hasSite |
Bentley site
ⓘ
Buffalo site ⓘ Clover site ⓘ Fort Ancient Earthworks and Nature Preserve ⓘ
surface form:
Fort Ancient Earthworks
Fox Farm site ⓘ Hardin Village site ⓘ Madisonville site ⓘ State Line site ⓘ SunWatch Indian Village ⓘ |
| hasSubculture |
Anderson phase
ⓘ
Baum phase ⓘ Feurt phase ⓘ Madisonville phase ⓘ Manion phase ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Mississippian culture ⓘ |
| languageFamily | uncertain ⓘ |
| mainCrop | maize ⓘ |
| otherCrop |
beans
ⓘ
squash ⓘ sunflower ⓘ |
| otherFoodSource |
fish
ⓘ
white-tailed deer ⓘ wild plants ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Mississippian culture
ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippian period
|
| partOf |
Eastern Woodlands
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Woodlands cultural area
|
| practiced |
bone working
ⓘ
burial mounds reuse from earlier cultures ⓘ flexed and extended burials ⓘ shell bead production ⓘ shell-tempered pottery manufacture ⓘ stone tool knapping ⓘ village cemeteries ⓘ |
| precededBy | Late Woodland cultures of the Ohio Valley ⓘ |
| region |
Indiana
ⓘ
Kentucky ⓘ Ohio ⓘ Ohio Valley region ⓘ
surface form:
Ohio Valley
West Virginia ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Mississippian cultural traditions ⓘ |
| religion | Eastern Woodlands indigenous belief systems ⓘ |
| studiedBy | archaeologists ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Late Woodland–Mississippian transition
ⓘ
circa 1000 CE to 1750 CE ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.