The site names are legendary: Baum Village Site, Fox Far, Madisonville, Fuert Village Site, to name just a few.  Over 700 pages in length and with early historic maps from the 17th Century from such notable sources as Marquette, Joliet, Franquelin and Minet, Griffin's monumental work sheds new light on the Ft. Ancient people.

Griffin on the builders of Ft. Ancient and Serpent Mound

The lack of evidence conclusively associating the building of Fort Ancient with the culture to which Mills gave the name "Fort Ancient" and the definite suggestions of Hopewellian occupation in and to the east of the fort make it probable that the fort was not built by the "Fort Ancient" people, just as it is even more probable that Serpent Mound was not built by them. If these two earthen monuments were actually built prior to the Fort Ancient occupation of Ohio, the only large earthworks ever assigned to that culture are eliminated from that classification. Willoughby has maintained for years that Serpent Mound and Fort Ancient belonged to the Hopewellian culture, and Shetrone by 1931 did not include them as Fort Ancient sites. Shetrone at the same time also suggested the possibility that the fort Itself was built before the formation of the Fort Ancient culture as represented in the valley village sites and said: "The question may later be answered by further exploration of the Fort site"" It now seems fairly clear that the culture was misnamed, but lack of definite evidence and the well-established use of Fort Ancient as the name for the cultural material forming the subject of this book make it inadvisable to suggest a new term."

We have split this large volume into two parts: Part 1 contains the text, maps and tables and Part 2 contains the 154 full page plates and descriptions along with the index.

This two part, 8" x 10-1/2", 728 page, soft cover, facsimile reprint two part set  is illustrated with 18 text figures, 6 foldout tables, 10 maps (5 foldouts) and 154 full-page plates.  $34.95