Bradley Thomas Lepper | |
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Born | November 19, 1955 |
Education | B.A., University of New Mexico M.A. and Ph.D., Ohio State University |
Known for | Archaeology of
Ohio and
North America Earthworks Ice age peoples. |
Spouse | Karen Richardson Lepper |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Archaeology |
Institutions |
Ohio History Connection Denison University Ohio State University, Newark Campus |
Thesis | Early Paleo-Indian Land Use Patterns in the Central Muskingum River Basin, Coshocton County, Ohio (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | William S. Dancey |
Bradley Thomas Lepper (born November 19, 1955) is an American archaeologist best known for his work on ancient earthworks and ice age peoples in Ohio. Lepper is the Curator of Archaeology and Manager of Archaeology and Natural History at the Ohio History Connection. [1] [2]
Lepper is a native of Hudson, Ohio and graduated from Hudson High School in 1974. [3] He has continued to live in Ohio apart from his time at the University of New Mexico, where he received his bachelor's degree after transferring from the University of Akron. [4] [2] Lepper earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Ohio State University.
Lepper began his career as curator at the Newark Earthworks and Flint Ridge State Memorial after interning with the Ohio Department of Transportation. [2] He is known for the excavation of the Burning Tree mastodon, which took place in December 1989 during expansion of a golf course in Licking County, Ohio and which eventually resulted in rethinking then-current ideas about mastodons' diets. The story made Discover Magazine's top fifty science stories in 1991. [5]
Lepper is also known for his work on the Great Hopewell Road and Serpent Mound.
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Born | November 19, 1955 |
Education | B.A., University of New Mexico M.A. and Ph.D., Ohio State University |
Known for | Archaeology of
Ohio and
North America Earthworks Ice age peoples. |
Spouse | Karen Richardson Lepper |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Archaeology |
Institutions |
Ohio History Connection Denison University Ohio State University, Newark Campus |
Thesis | Early Paleo-Indian Land Use Patterns in the Central Muskingum River Basin, Coshocton County, Ohio (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | William S. Dancey |
Bradley Thomas Lepper (born November 19, 1955) is an American archaeologist best known for his work on ancient earthworks and ice age peoples in Ohio. Lepper is the Curator of Archaeology and Manager of Archaeology and Natural History at the Ohio History Connection. [1] [2]
Lepper is a native of Hudson, Ohio and graduated from Hudson High School in 1974. [3] He has continued to live in Ohio apart from his time at the University of New Mexico, where he received his bachelor's degree after transferring from the University of Akron. [4] [2] Lepper earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Ohio State University.
Lepper began his career as curator at the Newark Earthworks and Flint Ridge State Memorial after interning with the Ohio Department of Transportation. [2] He is known for the excavation of the Burning Tree mastodon, which took place in December 1989 during expansion of a golf course in Licking County, Ohio and which eventually resulted in rethinking then-current ideas about mastodons' diets. The story made Discover Magazine's top fifty science stories in 1991. [5]
Lepper is also known for his work on the Great Hopewell Road and Serpent Mound.
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