Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
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The Newark Earthworks Center (NEC) is an educational center that develops projects and research about the American Indian cultures that produced the monumental Midwestern earthen architecture in order to advance understanding of the cultural and scientific achievements of American Indians to the world.
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
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3:08 - 3:19 p.m."Though April’s total eclipse will take place around 3 p.m., as the moon’s shadow moves over the Earth, the sky will darken as if it’s night. And as the sun’s light dims, the surrounding air will become noticeably cooler and nearby bugs and animals will likely fall silent. If you’re viewing the event from inside the path of totality, it’s during this brief time that viewers can ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
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The Octagon State Memorial, Newark Earthworks Map.Image courtesy of the Ancient Ohio Trail.The Octagon State Memorial is one of the most spectacular surviving remnants of the Newark Earthworks. The Octagon is connected to a perfectly circular enclosure 1,054 feet in diameter. The architecture of the Octagon Earthworks encodes a sophisticated understanding of geometry and astronomy. It is a ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
6M ago
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, UNESCO World Heritage SiteWorld Heritage Celebration at the Great Circle, Part of the Newark Earthworks, Heath Ohio. 2013, Tim Black.45th Extended Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee | Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaSeptember 19, 2023The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural World Heritage inscription recognizes the identification ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
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Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia September 10 - 25, 2023.The United States and Ohio's nomination of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks is scheduled to be examined and debated for inscription by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee!UNESCO World Heritage recognizes the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage considered of outstanding value for all of ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
9M ago
The Octagon State Memorial, Newark Earthworks Map.Image courtesy of the Ancient Ohio Trail.The Octagon State Memorial is one of the most spectacular surviving remnants of the Newark Earthworks. The Octagon is connected to a perfectly circular enclosure 1,054 feet in diameter. The architecture of the Octagon Earthworks encodes a sophisticated understanding of geometry and astronomy. It is a ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
11M ago
Our book is available to order fromThe Ohio State University Press, Barnes and Noble and Amazon as of June 2023!$24.95 in Paperback or PDF EBook. 25 Color Illustrations, 152 pages.Rising in quiet grandeur from the earth in an astoundingly engineered arrangement that ancient peoples mapped to the movements of the moon, Ohio’s Newark Earthworks form the largest geometric earthen complex ever ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
1y ago
7 - 8:30 p.m.Free and Open to the Public.Faculty Club Grand Lounge181 Oval Dr. S.Columbus, OH 43210The 2023 Annual Barbara A. Hanawalt Public Lecture will feature Caroline Dodds Pennock, Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield. History has long told the tale of Christopher Columbus’s ‘discovery’ of the Americas in 1492, but what is often forgotten is that ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
1y ago
5 p.m.Free and open to the public.John and Mary Alford Performing Arts Hall1209 University Drive, Newark, OhioRegistration Required.Free copies of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants are still available at the library front desk on the Newark campus of The Ohio State University and Central Ohio Technical College. Our address is 1219 University ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
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5 p.m.Free and open to the public.John and Mary Alford Performing Arts Hall1209 University Drive, Newark, OhioRegistration Required.Free books available for the first 100 registrants!https://go.osu.edu/braiding_sweetgrassBook signing to follow.Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching ..read more
Newark Earthworks Center's Blog
1y ago
Spring 2022Stephen Gavazzi and John Low [Pokagon Band of Potawatomi], within the Academe of the American Association of University Professors, have written an exploratory article about confronting the wealth transfer from tribal nations that established land-grant universities and steps towards accountability and atonement."The project conceptualized the unjust actions historically taken against ..read more