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Traveler’s Guide to Ancient Ohio

Essential Guidebook and Journal

A guide to discovering Ohio, including Native American heritage, earthworks, ceremonial centers, natural wonders, and more. 

This travel guide to southern and central Ohio features routes to Ohio’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, and dozens of other ancient monuments and historic places, situating them in their historical, geographical, and interpretive contexts. This volume is designed for trip planning and touring, as well as a general introduction to the region’s rich Indigenous and early settlement histories. 

Complete with custom maps for each route, this book is the only thorough guide to Ohio’s brilliant Indigenous monumental earthworks. Richly illustrated in full color and accompanied by a companion site with oral histories and interactive maps, this book features curated routes, site trail descriptions, and interactive perspectives that will provide visitors and readers with a deep understanding and appreciation of Ohio’s Indigenous communities.
 

208 pages | 207 color plates | 5 x 8 | © 2025

Thinking About Ohio

Architecture: History of Architecture

History: American History


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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Region

- Practicalities

- Chronologies

- The Earthworks

The Routes:

- World Heritage Route

- Muskingum Route

- Hocking Route

- Lower Scioto route

- Upper Scioto Route

- Upper Scioto Route

- Brush Creek Route

- Upper Miami Route

- Lower Miami Route

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