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1840s map of Mound City. From about 200 BC to AD 500, the Ohio River Valley was a central area of the prehistoric Hopewell culture. The term Hopewell (taken from the land owner who owned the land where one of the mound complexes was located) culture is applied to a broad network of beliefs and practices among different Native American peoples who inhabited a large portion of eastern North America.
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, formerly known as Mound City Group National Monument, is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about 200 BCE to 500 CE. The park is composed of six separate ...
Owned and managed by the National Park Service as a part of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: 1689-007 Seip Earthworks: Bainbridge, Ohio: Large mound 25 ft (7.6 m) in height surrounded by a complex of two circular and one square enclosures.
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Chillicothe are home to the largest group of Hopewell burial mounds in eastern North America, with an estimated 23 ...
The Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is a historical park with earthworks and mounds made by the people of the Hopewell tradition dating as far back as 200 BC.
The events at Fort Ancient and Hopewell Culture National Historical Park will begin at 3 p.m. Sept. 19. Observances at Fort Ancient also will continue for the next two days, Sept. 20-21.
The Portsmouth Earthworks are a large prehistoric mound complex constructed by the Native American Adena and Ohio Hopewell cultures of eastern North America (100 BCE to 500 CE). [2] The site was one of the largest earthwork ceremonial centers constructed by the Hopewell and is located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, in present ...
For 400 years, Indigenous North Americans flocked to a group of ceremonial sites in what is present-day Ohio to celebrate their culture and honor their dead. On Saturday, the sheer magnitude of ...