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The Bintz Site*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Howard A. Maccord
Howard A. Maccord*
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The Bintz site is a small village site located on the left bank of the Ohio River at the mouth of Twelve-Mile Creek, Campbell County, Kentucky, on property belonging to Mrs. William C. Bintz. The village consists of two parts – the “lower village,” at the immediate edge of the river, just downstream from the mouth of the creek, and the “upper village” about two hundred meters from the river and the creek on a terrace about four meters higher than the flood-plain where the “lower village” is located (Fig. 87). The cultural material found at both areas is identical, and it appears that both areas were occupied by the same people and at the same time. With the exception of a small amount of Woodland material found on the surface and in the excavations at the “upper village,” all the material is definitely of the Fort Ancient type. Since the pottery types link the site specifically with the Madisonville and Fox Farm sites, we classify the Bintz site as a component of the Madisonville focus (Griffin, 1943).

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , January 1953 , pp. 239 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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Footnotes

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Excavations at the Bintz, Site were conducted as a spare-time project by the following members of the Kentucky Archaeological Society, Northern Kentucky Chapter: Mrs. Bertha Mergenthal, Mr. Arthur Mergenthal, Mr. E. W. “Bud” Adams, Robert VanDyne and the author. The author assumes full responsibility for the facts, statistics and conclusions stated in this paper, since he supervised the field work, the keeping of the field-notes and the analysis and study of the artifacts. Collections made at the site have been placed in the William Behringer Memorial Museum, Devou Park, Covington, Kentucky, where they are displayed and available for study.

References

Griffin, James B. 1943. The Fort Ancient Aspect, Ann Arbor, Michigan.Google Scholar