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SunWatch Museum CollectionThe artifacts recovered during the Dayton Society of Natural History’s excavations at SunWatch are curated in the Anthropology Department at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton. The Anthropology Department curates a highly diverse collection of objects numbering well over 1,400,000 items, including the SunWatch material. The majority of the collection is archaeological in nature and includes stone tools, pottery, and organic materials collected during the Museum's five decades of archaeological research in the Miami Valley area. Other items in the Anthropology Collection include materials made and used by American Indian peoples across what we now call the United States, as well as other objects from around the world.
Excavation by the Dayton Society of Natural History includes work at the Late Woodland Lichliter site in Trotwood, Ohio, the Late Prehistoric SunWatch/Incinerator site in Dayton, the Middle Woodland Purdom Works in Greene County, Ohio, and the Late Prehistoric site 33 My 127, also in Dayton. We have also conducted many smaller salvage excavations when prehistoric materials have been inadvertently unearthed or were discovered during construction activities or other projects.
Our current excavations are a long-term investigation of a site known as “33 My 127.” This site was built by the same culture that occupied SunWatch Indian Village and dates to approximately the same time period (circa 600-800 years old). It is a smaller habitation site and differs in some significant ways from SunWatch. Our investigations at 33 My 127 allow us to contrast our findings there with those of SunWatch. If you are a professional archaeologist or student interested in using the collections held by the Dayton Society of Natural History for a research project, or a museum professional or student interested in utilizing some of the collection for an exhibit, or for any other questions related to our collections please contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery. For more information, please call 937-268-8199.
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