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The Hopeton Earthworks are an Ohio Hopewell culture archaeological site consisting of mounds and earthwork enclosures.It is located on the eastern bank of the Scioto River just north of Chillicothe in Ross County, Ohio, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Mound City Group and Shriver Circle on a terrace of the Scioto River.
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.
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 ...
In 2023, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (which include eight sites in Licking, Ross, and Warren counties) was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is Ohio's first world heritage site and one ...
Map of the archaeological cultures of Ohio Artists conception of the summer solstice sunrise at the Shriver Circle with the Mound City Group to the left. The greatest concentration of Hopewell ceremonial sites is in the Scioto River Valley (from Columbus to Portsmouth, Ohio) and adjacent Paint Creek valley, centered on Chillicothe, Ohio. These ...
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 ...
And so, the Ohio Hopewell collection was purchased by the owner of a private museum in England for $10,000 and sent across the sea. In 1931, the collection was purchased by the British Museum ...
1840s map of Shriver Circle and Mound City in Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Before excavations were first done at the site in 1846 a road and part of the Ohio and Erie Canal had already been constructed during the early 1830s on the western third of the enclosure. [1] Squier and Davis partially excavated the central mound in 1846.