understanding The professional excavations of the twentieth century revealed that the Turpin site was primarily a Fort Ancient village, although some Late Woodland influence was also present. Writing in 1966, archaeologist James Griffin classified Turpin and the nearby Sand Ridge site within the Madisonville Focus of the Fort Ancient culture. Twenty years later, a study of the chronology of the Fort Ancient culture assigned Turpin to the Early Fort Ancient period and the Madisonville site to the Late Fort Ancient period. The typical resident of an Early Fort Ancient village lived in a single-family house, unlike the larger multiple-family houses found at villages such as the Madisonville site in Mariemont, just across the Little Miami River from Newtown. Based on artifacts found at the site, such as decorated ceramics and tempered pottery, the study's author concluded that the site's inhabitants were influenced by Mississippian groups such as the people of the Angel phase. Among the distinctive features of Turpin pottery is the presence of guilloché whose holes include smaller holes at their centers; this feature has also been found at two other sites in the valley of the Little Miami. Writing in 1986, Wesley Cowan proposed Turpin as a type site for a phase of the Fort Ancient culture in southwestern Ohio, lasting from AD 1000 to 1250. Recognition As one of southwestern Ohio's more significant archaeological sites, the Turpin site has been used as a benchmark for the study of other Fort Ancient sites in the Ohio River watershed. In 2007, Kathleen Brady-Rawlins made extensive use of data from Turpin in her post excavation analysis of the O.C. Voss Site in western Franklin County, along with other sites in southern and central Ohio. Furthermore, the site has been recognized as worthy of prehistoric preservation by the National Park Service; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Four other sites in the Newtown vicinity, including the Madisonville site, are also listed on the National Register. The Turpin site and the surrounding farm are still owned by the Turpin family, which grows sod on the property. References External links Owner's website Archaeological sites in Ohio Fort Ancient culture Archaeological sites in Hamilton County, Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Hamilton County, Ohio Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Archaeological type sites