Maize-farming villagers of the middle Ohio Valley who lived in circular palisaded towns laid out like sundials around a central plaza, as at SunWatch.
Disrupted by disease and upheaval as Europeans neared, the Fort Ancient people dispersed by the mid-1600s, ancestral to historic Ohio Valley nations.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Fort Ancient — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1301 · 1551.
Covers the Ohio Valley Woodland and later village cultures including Fort Ancient (broad context).
Pre-contact synthesis on Eastern Woodland farming societies (broad context).