The Spruce Run Earthworks is an
archaeological site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or recorded history, historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline ...
located in the central part of the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
, in
Delaware County. It is believed to have been built by the
Adena culture
The Adena culture was a pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 500 BCE to 100 CE, in a time known as the Early Woodland period. The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharin ...
.
See also
*
Highbanks Metropolitan Park Mounds I and II
*
Highbank Park Works
References
External links
Adena culture
Archaeological sites in Ohio
National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Ohio
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Woodland period
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