Brad Lepper

Bradley Thomas Lepper
Born	(1955-11-19)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]}

Background

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.

Career

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]

Burning Tree Mastodon excavation site, Burning Tree Golf Course

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) ^[6]
• Ohio Archaeological Council Public Awareness Award (2008) ^[7]

Publications

• 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. ISBN   978-0963433107. OCLC   27992155.
• Glotzhober, Robert; Lepper, Bradley (1994). Serpent Mound: Ohio's Enigmatic Effigy Mound. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society. ISBN   978-0877580225. OCLC   31456170.
• Lepper, Bradley (1995). People of the Mounds: Ohio's Hopewell Culture. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society. OCLC   34005808.
• Lepper, Bradley; Yerkes, Richard (1997). "Hopewellian Occupations at the Northern Periphery of the Newark Earthworks: The Newark Expressway Sites Revisited". In Dancey, William; Pacheco, Paul (eds.). Ohio Hopewell Community Organization. Kent: Kent State University Press. pp. 175–206. ISBN   978-0873385619. OCLC   35280493.
• Lepper, Bradley (1998). "The Archaeology of the Newark Earthworks". In Mainfort, Robert; Sullivan, Lynne (eds.). Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 114–134. ISBN   978-0813015927. OCLC   38425858.
• Lepper, Bradley (1999). "Pleistocene Peoples of Midcontinental North America". In Bonnichsen, Robson; Turnmire, Karen (eds.). Ice Age People of North America. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. pp. 362–394. ISBN   978-0870714580. OCLC   41231290.
• Lepper, Bradley (2000). "Tracking Ohio's Hopewell Road". In Bayman, James; Stark, Miriam (eds.). Exploring the Past: Readings in Archaeology. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. ISBN   978-0890896990. OCLC   40473702.
• Lepper, Bradley (2002). The Newark Earthworks: A Wonder of the Ancient World. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society. OCLC   82900951.
• Connolly, Robert; Lepper, Bradley, eds. (2004). The Fort Ancient Earthworks: Prehistoric Lifeways of the Hopewell Culture in Southwestern Ohio. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society. ISBN   978-0877580294. OCLC   61197900.{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Lepper, Bradley (2004). "Public Policy, Academic Archaeology, and the First Americans". In Lepper, Bradley; Bonnichsen, Robson (eds.). New Perspectives on the First Americans. College Station: Center for the Study of the First Americans. pp. 203–208. ISBN   9781585443642. OCLC   55516872.
• Lepper, Bradley (2004). "The Newark Earthworks: Monumental Geometry and Astronomy at a Hopewellian Pilgrimage Center". In Sharp, Robert (ed.). Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. pp. 73–82. ISBN   9780300104677. OCLC   56633574.
• Bonnichsen, Robson; Lepper, Bradley (2005). "Changing Perceptions of Paleoamerican Prehistory". In Bonnichsen, Robson (ed.). Paleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis. College Station: Center for the Study of the First Americans. pp. 9–22. ISBN   9781585445400. OCLC   61758058.
• Lepper, Bradley (2005). Ohio Archaeology: An Illustrated Chronicle of Ohio's Ancient American Indian Cultures. Wilmington: Orange Frazer Press. ISBN   9781882203390. OCLC   56614293.
• Lepper, Bradley (2006). "The Great Hopewell Road and the Role of the Pilgrimage in the Hopewell Interaction Sphere". In Charles, Douglas; Buikstra, Jane (eds.). Recreating Hopewell. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 122–133. ISBN   978-0813028989. OCLC   61758660.
• Lepper, Bradley (2010). "The Ceremonial Landscape of the Newark Earthworks and the Raccoon Creek Valley". In Byers, A.; Wymer, DeeAnne (eds.). Hopewell Settlement Patterns, Subsistence, and Symbolic Landscapes. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 97–127. ISBN   9780813034553. OCLC   437299355.
• Feder, Kenneth; Lepper, Bradley T.; Barnhart, Terry A.; Bolnick, Deborah A. (2011). "Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History Part One: An Alternate Reality". Skeptical Inquirer . 35 (5): 38–45. Archived from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
• Lepper, Bradley T.; Feder, Kenneth L.; Barnhart, Terry A.; Bolnick, Deborah A. (2011). "Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History Part Two: False Messages in Stone". Skeptical Inquirer . 35 (6): 48–54. Archived from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
• Bolnick, Deborah A.; Feder, Kenneth L.; Lepper, Bradley T.; Barnhart, Terry A. (2012). "Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History Part Three: Real Messages in DNA". Skeptical Inquirer . 36 (1): 48–51. Archived from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

References

1. "Archaeology Staff". Ohio History Connection. Archived from the original on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
2. Micah Hanks (3 February 2018). "Ancient Ohio in Focus". Seven Ages (Podcast). Retrieved 16 February 2019.
3. "Newark Earthworks: Ohio's ancient wonder". thesuburbanite.com. 3 January 2019. Archived from the original on 20 February 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
4. Glavic, Jamie. "Meet A Museum Blogger: Brad Lepper". Museum Minute. Archived from the original on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
5. "The year in 1990 science". Discover. 12 (1). 1991.
6. "Book Award". Society for American Archaeology. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
7. Redmond, Brian. "Heilman and Lepper Receive 2008 OAC Board Awards". Ohio Archaeological Council. Retrieved 17 February 2019.

External links

• Ancient Ohio Trail