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Archaeologist Brad Lepper will be presenting “The Newark Earthworks: One of the Worlds Ancient Wonders” on Sunday August 10 at 1:30 at the Fort Recovery Museum. The presentation is free. NEWARK EARTHWORKS The Newark Earthworks are part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built by ancient American Indians between AD 1 to AD 400, the Great Circle and Octagon Earthworks were part cathedral, part astronomical observatory. You can visit these architectural wonders in the charming cities of Newark and Heath, Ohio, stand where these brilliant builders stood, and feel the wisdom they wrote into the land. BRAD LEPPER Brad Lepper is the Senior Archeologist for the Ohio History Connection’s World Heritage Program. His research has encompassed more than 14,000 years of Ohio’s Indigenous history but has been focused on the monumental earthworks of the Hopewell culture. Eight of their most magnificent and best-preserved earthworks, including Newark’s Great Circle and Octagon Earthworks, have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. He is the principal author of Ohio Archaeology: an illustrated chronicle of Ohio's ancient American Indian cultures, published in 2005 by Orange Frazer Press and now out of print. This book received the Society for American Archaeology's Public Audience Book Award in 2007.
