The last weekend in July, I visited Fort Ancient State Park in southwest Ohio. Fort Ancient is North America's largest prehistoric Indian hilltop enclosure earthwork. Fort Ancient features 18,000 feet of earthen walls built 2,000 years ago by Hopewell Indians. Portions of these walls were used in conjunction with the sun and moon to provide a calendar system for these peoples. The site is situated on a wooded bluff 270 feet above the Little Miami River. The location is named for the Fort Ancient Indians who occupied it from the eleventh to the fifteenth century.
