Buckner site

{{Short description|Archaeological site in Kentucky, U.S.}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}

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| name = Buckner site (15BB12)

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| nearest_city = Paris, Kentucky

| locmapin = Kentucky#USA

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| added = January 27, 1983

| refnum = 83002557{{cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/nrhp|title=National Register Information System|date=November 2, 2010|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=November 3, 2010|archive-date=August 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803035425/http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreghome.do?searchtype=natreghome|url-status=live}}

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The Buckner site (15BB12) is a Middle Fort Ancient culture (1200 to 1400 CE) archaeological site located on Strodes Creek in Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States. It has two large circular village areas, each surrounding its own central plaza and several smaller special use areas to the north and northeast of the site.{{Cite book|title=Kentucky Archaeology|chapter= Chapter 6:Fort Ancient Farmers|last=Sharp|first=William E.|editor=Lewis, R. Barry|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=0-8131-1907-3|year=1996|pages=166–168}}

The site was excavated during the 1930s by William S. Webb as salvage archaeology operations during the Great Depression.{{citation|editor1= Tushingham, Shannon|editor2=Hill, Jane|editor3= McNutt, Charles H.|last=Clay|first=R. Berle|chapter=40 years of Kentucky archaeology or Incidents of recent archaeological history in a border state:a review|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oR1YA_fJ638C&q=buckner+site+%2B+fort+ancient&pg=PA164|title=Histories of southeastern archaeology|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-1139-1|year=2002|page=164}} It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 1983.