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Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants.
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 the Chillicothe on the northern bank of Paint Creek. [7] Indian Mound Cemetery
This large size makes it one of the five largest known Hopewell mounds. [3] 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]
Montane Hopewell is a variant that is a considerable distance from Cole Culture and Peters Phase, or Hopewell central Ohio. According to McMichael, the culture built small, conical mounds in the late Hopewell period; this religion appeared to be waning in terms of being expressed in the daily living activities at these sites.
OSU Professor Richard Shiels explains the origins of the name for the potential Hopewell World Heritage site.
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 ]
The scale and complexity of mounds and other earthworks at the Mann site is rivaled in the Midwest only by the Hopewell sites of southern Ohio. Its population size may have been on a scale unparalleled by any of the Ohio centers and perhaps by any other Hopewell site in the Midwest. [2]
After the Hopewell people cremated the dead, they burned the charnel house. They constructed a mound over the remains. They also placed artifacts, such as copper figures, mica, arrowheads, shells and pipes in the mounds. Mount Vernon Site: Posey County, Indiana: 1 to 300 CE Crab Orchard Culture: One of the largest known Hopewell mounds. Large ...