Denison University anthropology professor John Soderberg dug himself into a hole.
Well, it was a trench that Soderberg and his team hoped would provide evidence of a long-lost earthen circle built by Indigenous people thousands of years ago.
Something resembling a circle appeared on sub-surface imaging of a field off Newark-Granville Road, east of Columbus. The property belongs to the village of Granville and is home to several known archeological sites. Soderberg said the field shows evidence of being inhabited for around 10,000 years…