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The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period.
This is a list of Hopewell sites.The Hopewell tradition (also called the "Hopewell culture") refers to the common aspects of the Native American culture that flourished along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern United States from 200 BCE to 500 CE.
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.
[2] It is the largest Hopewell Native American site in the state, [3] and contains evidence of human activity that stretches over 10,000 years in length from the present day. [ 4 ] Historically comprising ninety-six mounds, the site today consists of a remaining forty-seven mounds, eight of which are in poor condition as a result of natural and ...
Events at Hopewell Ceremonial ... the collective name for the eight works of human creative genius constructed between 1,600 and 2,000 years ago by American Indians. ... of the Ohio History ...
On November 28, 1785, the first Treaty of Hopewell was signed between the U.S. representative Benjamin Hawkins and the Cherokee Indians. In addition to circumscribing a large part of the northern and eastern boundary of the Cherokee Nation not already defined by previous treaties and land cessions, the treaty ceded a wedge of land south of the Cumberland river in north central Tennessee around ...
Built by the Hopewell culture between 100 BCE and 400 CE, [5] the earthworks were used by the indigenous Native Americans as places of ceremony, social gathering, trade, worship, and honoring the dead. [1] [6] The primary purpose of the Octagon earthwork was believed to have been scientific.
Ohio Hopewell The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 500 BCE [ 1 ] to 100 CE, [ 2 ] in a time known as the Early Woodland period . [ 3 ] The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system.