Address Restricted, Paradise, Kentucky. County/parish: Ohio.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000362.
1 contributing site.
Indian Knoll is an archaeological site near the Green River in Ohio County, Kentucky that was declared to be a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
Excavations of Indian Knoll during the Great Depression: 115 were conducted by archaeologists from the University of Kentucky as part of WPA economic recovery efforts. Research of the remains and artifacts in the 1960s-1970s demonstrated that its builders were greatly atypical of inhabitants of Archaic sites.: 672 Archaic peoples were typically egalitarian,: 658 but burials at this knoll revealed that the inhabitants were divided into two social groups, irrespective of age or sex, and social class seems the most likely reason for this division.: 672
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