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Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This black, obsidian biface is crescent-shaped and there are small, shallow corner notches. The inner edge of the blade expands near the base, which is small and fan-shaped. The blade has been repaired, as it was broken nearly in half, and the tip of the blade has been reconstructed from painted plaster. This piece 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: A0283_000386
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Tools, Prehistoric
Places: Hopewell Mound Group