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  2. Hopewell tradition - Wikipedia

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    to southern Ohio. Similarly, the Havana Hopewell tradition was thought to have spread up the Illinois River and into southwestern Michigan, spawning Goodall Hopewell. (Dancey 114) American archaeologist Warren K. Moorehead popularized the term Hopewell after his 1891 and 1892 explorations of the Hopewell Mound Group in Ross County, Ohio. The ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks - Wikipedia

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    The mound is made up of three sections and is one of the largest Hopewell mounds ever discovered. Numerous artifacts and ceremonial burials were found within the mound. [ 11 ] Owned and managed by the National Park Service as a part of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park .

  6. Mount Vernon Site - Wikipedia

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    The mound is located near the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash rivers near another large-scale Hopewell site, the Mann site. 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 ...

  7. Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks marks first anniversary of ...

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    Events at Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks locations will celebrate first anniversary of World Heritage site designation ... Mound City and the Seip Earthworks at Chillicothe’s Hopewell Culture ...

  8. Albany Mounds State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  9. Hopeton Earthworks - Wikipedia

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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.