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Montane Hopewell is a variant that is a considerable distance from Cole Culture and Peters Phase, or Hopewell central Ohio. According to McMichael, the culture built small, conical mounds in the late Hopewell period; this religion appeared to be waning in terms of being expressed in the daily living activities at these sites.
The park includes archaeological resources of the Ohio Hopewell culture. Hopewell Mound Group: 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 ...
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.
Interior walls and gateways divide the site into three separate enclosures. Small burial/ceremonial mounds, and mass graves containing artifacts are located within the enclosure. Although built by the Hopewell, the site was inhabited centuries later by the Fort Ancient culture, who were named after the site. [12]
The mound was used as a ceremonial and burial site, most likely by the Mann phase of the Crab Orchard Culture. [5] A great number of artifacts were discovered inside the mound, with both the quantity and quality unmatched by few other Hopewell sites.
The Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Chillicothe is, like Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of just 25 in the United States. The park includes the Mound City group of ...
Hopewell pottery is the ceramic tradition of the various local cultures involved in the Hopewell tradition (ca. 200 BCE to 400 CE) [1] and are found as artifacts in archeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast.
Changes that archaeologists have identified that signal the end of the Hopewell culture don’t suggest a rapid decline in response to a disaster.