Biface Disk   Save
Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This biface is a thick, roughly worked oval. It is made of gray and dark gray Wyandotte flint. On one face there is a significant amount of the weathered outer layer of the flint core, from which the point was made (cortex). The cortex is pale yellow in color. 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_000388_191
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Tools, Prehistoric
Places: Hopewell Mound Group