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  2. List of Hopewell sites - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Adena culture - Wikipedia

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    Located in a city park at 900 Mound Avenue, it is an Ohio historical site and serves as a popular attraction and picnic destination for area families. Visitors can climb to the top of the mound via stone-masonry steps. Wolf Plains Group A Late Adena group of 30 earthworks including 22 conical mounds and nine circular enclosures. [13]

  4. Hopewell tradition - Wikipedia

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    The Hopewell inherited from their Adena forebears an incipient social stratification. This increased social stability and reinforced sedentism, specialized use of resources, and probably population growth. [6] Hopewell societies cremated most of their deceased and reserved burial for only the most important people. In some sites, hunters ...

  5. List of Adena culture sites - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Adena culture sites. The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that started during the latter end of the early Woodland Period (1000 to 200 BCE ) . The Adena culture existed from 500 BC into the First Century CE [ 1 ] and refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a ...

  6. Hopewell Culture National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Native American Heritage Sites (National Park Service)

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    Paleo, Archaic, Adena, Hopewell, Whittlessey Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, PA/NJ Munsee: De Soto National Memorial, FL Timucuan: Devils Tower National Monument, WY Northern Plains cultures including: Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, Kiowa, Crow, Arapaho, Shoshone, among others Effigy Mounds National Monument: IA

  8. List of burial mounds in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Ohio Hopewell culture: Located on Ohio Highway 104 approximately four miles north of Chillicothe along the Scioto River, it is a group of 23 earthen mounds. Each mound within the Mound City Group covered the remains of a charnel house. After the Hopewell people cremated the dead, they burned the charnel house. They constructed a mound over the ...

  9. Mississippian culture - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Caddoan Mississippian culture Spiro, in eastern Oklahoma. The Caddoan Mississippian area, a regional variant of the Mississippian culture, covered a large territory, including what is now eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas, northeastern Texas, and northwestern Louisiana.