Buckner Site (15BB12)
Nearest city
Paris, Kentucky
Governing body
Private
NRHP Reference #
83002557 [ 1]
Added to NRHP
January 27, 1983
The Buckner Site (15BB12 ) is a Middle Fort Ancient culture (1200 to 1400 CE) archaeological site located in Bourbon County, Kentucky on Strodes Creek . 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 [ edit ]
^ a b "National Register Information System" . National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2010-11-02.
^ Sharp, William E. (1996). "Chapter 6:Fort Ancient Farmers". In Lewis, R. Barry. Kentucky Archaeology . University Press of Kentucky. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-8131-1907-3 .
^ 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., Histories of southeastern archaeology , University of Alabama Press , p. 164, ISBN 978-0-8173-1139-1
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