Buckner Site

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Buckner Site (15BB12)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest cityParis, Kentucky
NRHP reference No.83002557[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 27, 1983

The Buckner Site (15BB12) is a Middle Fort Ancient culture (1200 to 1400 CE) archaeological site located in Bourbon County, Kentucky on . It has two large circular village areas, each surrounding its own central plaza and several smaller special use areas to the north and northeast of the site.[2] The site was excavated during the 1930s by William S. Webb as salvage archaeology operations during the Great Depression.[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 1983.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-11-02.
  2. ^ Sharp, William E. (1996). "Chapter 6:Fort Ancient Farmers". In Lewis, R. Barry (ed.). Kentucky Archaeology. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-8131-1907-3.
  3. ^ Clay, R. Berle (2002), "40 years of Kentucky archaeology or Incidents of recent archaeological history in a border state:a review", in Tushingham, Shannon; Hill, Jane; McNutt, Charles H. (eds.), Histories of southeastern archaeology, University of Alabama Press, p. 164, ISBN 978-0-8173-1139-1


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