The story of Fort Ancient

Meet Jack and hear the story about Fort Ancient and the tribes that visited.

[@Maxbps88]

Fort Ancient really should be re-named to something more appropriate. And a national/international museum needs to be created in Cincinnati to capture, retain, and share this knowledge.

[@dolliemartin9248]

I went there for my 4th grade field trip and I saw that guy

[@JohnathanMasters]

cool!

[@fordsrestorations970]

The Indians said they didn't build a lot of these earth mounds and structures , that a lot of them were already here when the Indians arrived. The Earth works and mounds in Circleville Newark Ohio are huge miles wide and can only be appreciated from helicopter , the mathematics is higher sometimes equal to the Egyptians. Their oral reports say that they sometimes repaired and added unto them. Just as South America , the Mayas-- Incas said that the God's had built them .... these earth works and other megalithic stone works are all over the Earth even in korea , Israel, etc.

[@user-rt5zh5iq2z]

strange to trust stories taking place hundreds of years before the arrival of written language in the area

[@MrChristianDT]

I think I have mostly sorted out what the site was being used for. I was able to bring up some rare references to some Saponi/ Catawba religious rituals documented among the Iroquois in the 1700s. Instead of dancing around a single fire, they lit two fires & preformed their dances in between. Clearly, the narrow corridor between the two isn't conducive to dancing, but what I think was happening was either: A) Two groups of shamans preforming a ritual on each end while another person or group of people did a second ritual in between the two. B) one group of shamans were expected to light one fire, preform the ritual, then run to light the second fire & preform it again. C) The fires are symbolic, but largely irrelevant & one group of shamans went back and forth between the two fires preforming a ritual at a leisurely pace. I imagine such a place was a sacred site for Shamans to appease the souls of the dead, to preform an older version of the death vigil ritual known to have been practiced by the Catawba & Ho-Chunk, or just for any rituals pertaining to death & the deceased in general.

[@Michael-fl1tm]

Hey parents, keep your kids quiet while adults are talkin

[@monkeyearcheese420]

We are not a fort we are an ancient church?

[@bbalance2086]

?

[@monkeyearcheese420]

@@bbalance2086 wow three years ago I had to rewatch. It was a statement the guy made that confused me.

[@Michael-fl1tm]

I call fort