[1] It is the best documented Middle Woodland site in the Northern Bluegrass region of Kentucky.

[2] The site is a 0.4-hectare (0.99-acre) open habitation area on an alluvial terrace of sand and gravel beds overlooking the Ohio River.

[2] The eastern side of the site was occupied twice during the Late Archaic period, 3715 plus or minus 40 years before the present, during the Central Ohio Valley phase (2750-1750 BCE) and 3090 plus or minus 50 years before the present, during the Maple Creek phase (1750–1000 BCE).

During this time period the residents of Ronald Watson relied heavily on nut resources and farmed native plants from the Eastern Agricultural Complex such as goosefoot, erect knotweed, sunflower, and maygrass.

[1] The site was also occupied briefly during the Middle Fort Ancient period (1200 to 1400 CE), during the Anderson phase.