Brad Lepper Explained
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.
Background
Lepper is a native of Hudson, Ohio and graduated from Hudson High School in 1974. 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. Lepper earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Ohio State University.
Career
Lepper began his career as curator at the Newark Earthworks and Flint Ridge State Memorial after interning with the Ohio Department of Transportation. 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.
Lepper is also known for his work on the Great Hopewell Road and Serpent Mound.
Awards
- Society for American Archaeology Book Award (2007, for Ohio Archaeology: An Illustrated Chronicle of Ohio's Ancient American Indian Cultures)
- Ohio Archaeological Council Public Awareness Award (2008)
Publications
- Book: Hooge. Paul. Lepper. Bradley. 1992. Vanishing Heritage: Notes and Queries about the Archaeology and Culture History of Licking County, Ohio. Ohio. Licking County Archaeology and Landmarks Society. 978-0963433107. 27992155.
- Book: Glotzhober. Robert. Lepper. Bradley. 1994. Serpent Mound: Ohio's Enigmatic Effigy Mound. Columbus. Ohio Historical Society. 978-0877580225. 31456170.
- Book: Lepper, Bradley. 1995. People of the Mounds: Ohio's Hopewell Culture. Columbus. Ohio Historical Society. 34005808.
- Encyclopedia: Lepper. Bradley. Yerkes. Richard. Dancey. William. Pacheco. Paul. Ohio Hopewell Community Organization. Hopewellian Occupations at the Northern Periphery of the Newark Earthworks: The Newark Expressway Sites Revisited. 1997. Kent State University Press. Kent. 978-0873385619. 35280493. 175–206.
- Encyclopedia: Lepper. Bradley. Mainfort. Robert. Sullivan. Lynne. Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands. The Archaeology of the Newark Earthworks. 1998. University Press of Florida. Gainesville. 978-0813015927. 38425858. 114–134.
- Encyclopedia: Lepper. Bradley. Bonnichsen. Robson. Turnmire. Karen. Ice Age People of North America. Pleistocene Peoples of Midcontinental North America. 1999. Oregon State University Press. Corvallis. 978-0870714580. 41231290. 362–394.
- Encyclopedia: Lepper. Bradley. Bayman. James. Stark. Miriam. Exploring the Past: Readings in Archaeology. Tracking Ohio's Hopewell Road. 2000. Carolina Academic Press. Durham. 978-0890896990. 40473702.
- Book: Lepper, Bradley. 2002. The Newark Earthworks: A Wonder of the Ancient World. Columbus. Ohio Historical Society. 82900951.
- Encyclopedia: Connolly. Robert. Lepper. Bradley. The Fort Ancient Earthworks: Prehistoric Lifeways of the Hopewell Culture in Southwestern Ohio. 2004. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. 978-0877580294. 61197900.
- Encyclopedia: Lepper. Bradley. Lepper. Bradley. Bonnichsen. Robson. New Perspectives on the First Americans. Public Policy, Academic Archaeology, and the First Americans. 2004. Center for the Study of the First Americans. College Station. 9781585443642. 55516872. 203–208.
- Encyclopedia: Lepper. Bradley. Sharp. Robert. Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South. The Newark Earthworks: Monumental Geometry and Astronomy at a Hopewellian Pilgrimage Center. 2004. Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago. 9780300104677. 56633574. 73–82.
- Encyclopedia: Bonnichsen. Robson. Lepper. Bradley. Bonnichsen. Robson. Paleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis. Changing Perceptions of Paleoamerican Prehistory. 2005. Center for the Study of the First Americans. College Station. 9781585445400. 61758058. 9–22.
- Book: Lepper, Bradley. 2005. Ohio Archaeology: An Illustrated Chronicle of Ohio's Ancient American Indian Cultures. Wilmington. Orange Frazer Press. 9781882203390. 56614293.
- Encyclopedia: Lepper. Bradley. Charles. Douglas. Buikstra. Jane. Recreating Hopewell. The Great Hopewell Road and the Role of the Pilgrimage in the Hopewell Interaction Sphere. 2006. University Press of Florida. Gainesville. 978-0813028989. 61758660. 122–133.
- Encyclopedia: Lepper. Bradley. Byers. A.. Wymer. DeeAnne. Hopewell Settlement Patterns, Subsistence, and Symbolic Landscapes. The Ceremonial Landscape of the Newark Earthworks and the Raccoon Creek Valley . 2010. University Press of Florida. Gainesville. 9780813034553. 437299355. 97–127.
- Feder . Kenneth . Kenneth Feder . Lepper . Bradley T.. Barnhart . Terry A. . Bolnick . Deborah A.. Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History Part One: An Alternate Reality . . 2011 . 35 . 5 . 38–45 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826162651/https://www.csicop.org/si/show/civilizations_lost_and_found_fabricating_history_-_part_one_an_alternate_re . 26 August 2018. 2018-08-26 .
- Lepper . Bradley T. . Feder . Kenneth L. . Kenneth Feder. Barnhart . Terry A. . Bolnick . Deborah A.. Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History Part Two: False Messages in Stone . . 2011 . 35 . 6 . 48–54 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826163437/https://www.csicop.org/si/show/civilizations_lost_and_found_fabricating_history_-_part_two_false_messages . 26 August 2018. 2018-08-26 .
- Bolnick . Deborah A. . Feder . Kenneth L. . Kenneth Feder . Lepper . Bradley T. . Barnhart . Terry A. . Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History Part Three: Real Messages in DNA . . 2012 . 36 . 1 . 48–51 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826165646/https://www.csicop.org/si/show/civilizations_lost_and_found_fabricating_history_-_part_three_real_messages . 26 August 2018. 2018-08-26 .
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