Ohio Hopewell Community Organization Edited by . • William S. Dancey and Paul J. Pacheco The Kent State University Press KBNT, OHIO, & LONDON, ENGLAND t- f'f · l -:rs - 2o s-- CHAPT:sl\ SBVBN Hopewellian Occupations at the Northern Periphery of the Newark Earthworks The Newark Expressway Sites Revisited Bradley T. Lepper and Richard W. Yerkes ABSTRACT Artifacts, feature plans, and other data from a testing program performed in the 1970s along the right-of-way of State Route 79 as it passes through the remnants of the Newark Earthworks are reexa,1llined in this chapter. Two clusters ofpostmolds and pit features, named Hale's House (33u252) and Meridian Alley (33u260 ), were encountered during the testing; each contained artifacts suggestive of a Middle Woodland age. Microwear analysis and other properties of these sites suggest that they were used as seasonally occupied camps. Their closeness to the earthworks argues against the idea that these public works were uninhabited. The purpose of this paper is to review the archaeological investigations of Everett Hale at the Newark Earthworks. Apart from a summary treatment by Lepper (1988) and Pacheco (1988), this work has not heretofore been pre- sented in a widely accessible form. The Newark expressway sites warrant the attention of students of Hopewell archaeology. The evidence for Hopewellian habitation sites in such dose proximity to a major earthwork complex casts doubt on the very idea of a vacant ceremonial center. The present volume offers an opportunity to review these important data in the broader context of Hopewell settlement archaeology.