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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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
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.
The type site for the Hopewell culture, the group consists of over 40 mounds surrounded by over 2.5 mi (4.0 km) of walls enclosing 110 acres (45 ha). The presence of clay lined ditches and nearby springs imply the site may have had water permanently flowing through it. [ 10 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Hopewell, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
"The Great Hopewell Road: GIS Solutions Towards Pathway Discovery", The Newsletter of Hopewell Archaeology in the Ohio River Valley; William F. Romain and Jarrod Burks, "LiDAR Imaging of the Great Hopewell Road", 4 February 2008, Ohio Archaeological Council "Kevin R. Schwarz, Great Hopewell Road: New Data Analyses and Future Research Prospects.