Fort Ancient

adjective

: of or belonging to a late prehistoric aspect of the upper Mississippi culture centered in southern Ohio and Indiana and extending into Kentucky and West Virginia

Word History

Etymology

from Fort Ancient, Warren county, Ohio

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