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Leake Mounds: Leake Mounds is an archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, built and used by peoples of the Swift Creek Culture. Lewiston Mound: A burial mound located at Lewiston, New York, in Niagara County, New York. The Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park has been developed around it and preserves the mound. Mann site
Lewiston Mound is a prehistoric burial mound built by the indigenous peoples of the Hopewell tradition. It is located on the grounds of the Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park, at Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. Lewiston Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1]
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.
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]
Mounds State Park: Mounds State Park is a state park in Anderson, Indiana, featuring prehistoric Native American heritage, and 10 ceremonial mounds built by the Adena culture people and also used by later Hopewell inhabitants. Mount Horeb Site 1: The center piece of the University of Kentuckys Adena Park in Fayette County, Kentucky.
OSU Professor Richard Shiels explains the origins of the name for the potential Hopewell World Heritage site.
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The Point Peninsula complex was an indigenous culture located in Ontario and New York from 600 BCE to 700 CE (during the Middle Woodland period). [1] Point Peninsula ceramics were first introduced into Canada around 600 BCE then spread south into parts of New England around 200 BCE. [2]