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John Seip Collection
Description: This turkey leg bone was split and sharpened to a point to form an awl. The bone is very pale brown in color and comes from Hopewell Culture. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large - the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A0957_001661
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Bone implements, Prehistoric
Places: John Seip Collection