From the
National Park Service
Northeast Region

Dennis Reidenbach
Northeast Regional Director

6/04/2009

2008 Midwest National Historic Landmark Winner

Sunwatch Site
Dayton, Ohio

Photographer: Jim Crotty

Sunwatch is located on the west bank of the Great Miami River within the city limits of Dayton. Ceramics, radio-carbon dates, and other evidence, indicate that this open village site is a Fort Ancient period village, probably occupied for not more than 25 years during the late 12th and early 13th centuries A.D. The site is one of the best preserved and most completely excavated and analyzed archeological village sites associated with the Post Archaic Eastern Farmers. This reconstructed “Big House” has been interpreted as part of an astronomical alignment denoting planting and harvesting times for the village occupants.

http://www.sunwatch.org/

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