Long-term interactions between people and places has been a focal point for archaeologists since the beginnings of the discipline. Monuments are one analytical unit of analysis that archaeologists regularly study and interpret as evidence for the ways people organize cooperative labor and inscribe on the landscape their connections to it. However, it is rare to acquire data that affords a rich and long-term description of the landscape before, during, and after a monument was built. In addition, archaeologists who study pre-textual societies are seldom afforded an opportunity to explore detailed questions relating to how monuments were engaged with after social dispositions toward them changed. In this article we present diverse datasets obtained from a small Middle Woodland (ca. 200 cal BC – cal AD 500) ditch and embankment enclosure in the Middle Ohio Valley, USA. Drawing on those data, we offer a detailed biographical description of the site that illustrates how pre-construction use of the area influenced construction of the enclosure, describes how the enclosure was used after construction, and indicates what happened when the enclosure became evaluated differently in society.

自该学科开始以来，人与地方之间的长期互动一直是考古学家关注的焦点。纪念碑是分析的一种分析单位，考古学家定期对其进行研究和解释，以此作为人们组织合作劳动并在景观上刻下与其联系的方式的证据。但是，很少有数据能够在纪念碑建造之前，之中和之后对景观进行丰富而长期的描述。此外，研究文本前社会的考古学家很少有机会探讨有关纪念碑对社会的态度改变后如何与纪念碑打交道的详细问题。在本文中，我们介绍了从一个小的中林地（ca. 位于美国俄亥俄州中谷的公元前200 cal –公元500 cal的沟渠和堤防围挡。利用这些数据，我们对现场进行了详细的传记描述，以说明该区域的施工前使用如何影响外壳的构造，描述在施工后如何使用外壳，并指出在对外壳进行不同评估时发生了什么情况。社会。