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The Hopewell Mound Group is the namesake and type site for the Hopewell culture and one of the six sites that make up the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. The group of mounds and earthworks enclosures are located several miles to the west of the Chillicothe on the northern bank of Paint Creek. [7] Indian Mound Cemetery
Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants.
"Hopewell-style" pottery and stone tools, typical of the Illinois and Ohio River valleys, are abundant at the Trowbridge site. Decorated Hopewell-style pottery rarely appears further west. [28] The Cloverdale site is situated at the mouth of a small valley that opens into the Missouri River Valley, near present-day Saint Joseph, Missouri.
After the Hopewell people cremated the dead, they burned the charnel house. They constructed a mound over the remains. They also placed artifacts, such as copper figures, mica, arrowheads, shells and pipes in the mounds. Mount Vernon Site: Posey County, Indiana: 1 to 300 CE Crab Orchard Culture: One of the largest known Hopewell mounds. Large ...
This large size makes it one of the five largest known Hopewell mounds. [3] The mound is located near the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash rivers near another large-scale Hopewell site, the Mann site. The mound was used as a ceremonial and burial site, most likely by the Mann phase of the Crab Orchard Culture. [5]
Map of mound locations. The site of the mounds is located between Indian Mounds Drive and Interstate 196 in Wyoming, Michigan near the Grand River. [3] [1] [7] The Norton Mounds site covers approximately 55 acres and is currently closed to the public. [5]
The Mann site is a Crab Orchard culture site located off Indian Mound Road in Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana. It was placed on the National Historic Register on October 1, 1974. [ 1 ] Exotic ceramics and other artifacts found at the site reflect contact with Ohio Hopewell people, in addition to more distant peoples in the Southeast of the ...
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park consists of four geographically separated units open to the public: [3] Mound City Group is the site of the visitor center and the only fully restored Hopewell site. It is located at 16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601. Seip Earthworks, located at 7078 US Route 50, Bainbridge, OH 45612.