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Ohio Department of Industrial and Economic Development
Description: View of the long earthen walls of the Newark (Ohio) Earthworks. A sole human figure is sitting on a wall, which stands in a broad expanse of empty fields and distant houses. Built by prehistoric Hopewell Culture between 100 B.C. and A.D. 500, this architectural remnant of ancient America was part cathedral, part cemetery, and part astronomical observatory. The entire Newark earthworks originally encompassed more than four square miles. Over the years, the growth of the city of Newark destroyed many of the Newark Earthworks. Three major segments survived: Great Circle Earthworks, Octagon Earthworks, and Wright Earthworks. In 2006, Governor Bob Taft formally declared the Newark Earthworks to be Ohio's state prehistoric monument, honoring the early American Indian builders of this site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05901
Subjects: Newark (Ohio); Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Earthworks (Archaeology); Ohio state symbols
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)