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Archaeology Collections, Ledger #2
Description: This wooden bowl is oval-shaped with a flaring rim. The wood ranges in color from dark reddish brown to very dark gray. It was broken into at least five fragments and has been glued together. This piece is part of 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: A4346_014484
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Containers, Prehistoric
Places: Archaeology Collections, Ledger #2