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On a terrace of the Scioto River at Hopetown, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the main Mound City group [16 39°23′11″N 82°58′45″W / 39.386389°N 82.979167°W / 39.386389; -82.979167 ( Hopeton Earthworks
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.
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 Beam Farm Woodland Archaeological District is a group of archaeological sites in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio.Located at 3983 Stone Road near the village of Sabina in Clinton County, [2] the district is composed of one Native American mound and two other archaeological sites spread out over an area of 2 acres (0.81 ha). [1]
The Williamson Mound Archeological District is an archaeological site in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located north of Maud in Butler County , [ 3 ] the mound appears to have been the work of peoples of the Hopewell tradition .
The Ellis Mounds are a complex of Native American mounds near Marysville in Union County, Ohio, United States. [1] These three mounds form an east-west line on a small ridgeline in a farm field. Believed to have been built by Hopewellian peoples, the mounds are important because they may reveal information about daily life in the Hopewell culture.
Platform mound Responsible body: private The Twin Mounds Site ( 15BA2 and 15BA14 ), also known as the Nolan Site , is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Barlow in Ballard County, Kentucky , just north of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers , and directly across the Ohio River from Mound City, Illinois .