Qualla: Hardin Village Site https://qualla.com/hardin-village-site en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/h/hardin-village-site-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hardin Village Site https://qualla.com/hardin-village-site Hardin Village Site: Introduction https://qualla.com/hardin-village-site/ Photo credit Heironymous Rowe (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. By the time French and English explorers reached this stretch of the Ohio River, the people who had lived here were already gone. Hardin Village was occupied from sometime in the early 1500s and abandoned around 1625, a window of about a century. The villagers never met a European. But European trade goods did reach them - brass tubes, copper, fragments of metal that traveled overland through Mississippian trade networks faster than the people who made them. Archaeologists have found those metal beads in some of the graves at Hardin, evidence of a world that was already changing for people who would not live long enough to see who was changing it.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/h/hardin-village-site-wp/dnvh-hardin-village-site-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hardin Village Site: A Floodplain Town https://qualla.com/hardin-village-site/ Photo credit Heironymous Rowe (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Hardin Village (site 15GP22) sat on a wide, flat terrace of the Ohio River about 3 miles from present-day South Shore, Kentucky. The two-kilometer-wide floodplain offered exactly what Fort Ancient farmers needed: rich soil for maize, beans, and squash, and easy access to the rive...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/h/hardin-village-site-wp/dnvh-hardin-village-site-a-floodplain-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Hardin Village Site: Longhouses on the Ohio https://qualla.com/hardin-village-site/ Photo credit Heironymous Rowe (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The houses were rectangular, built single-set-post style with each support sunk into its own hole, then walled with bark, thatch, or hide. They resembled the Iroquoian longhouses farther east. The largest measured up to 9.1 by 21.5 meters, with interior posts holding up the roof ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/h/hardin-village-site-wp/dnvh-hardin-village-site-longhouses-on-the-ohio.mp3 0:06 3 full Hardin Village Site: What the Burials Tell https://qualla.com/hardin-village-site/ Photo credit Heironymous Rowe (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Excavations in the late 1930s, 1966, and again in 2015 by University of Kentucky archaeologists have documented between 301 and 445 burials at Hardin - the largest Fort Ancient cemetery found in Kentucky. Most were extended burials, the body laid out straight. About half had grav...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/h/hardin-village-site-wp/dnvh-hardin-village-site-what-the-burials-tell.mp3 0:06 4 full Hardin Village Site: Why They Left https://qualla.com/hardin-village-site/ Photo credit Heironymous Rowe (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Hardin Village was abandoned by about 1625, decades before sustained European contact. The cause is debated. Climate shifts of the Little Ice Age may have shortened growing seasons; epidemic disease may have traveled ahead of the colonists who introduced it; warfare with Iroquoia...

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