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Archaeology Collections, Ledger #2
Description: This irregularly shaped, rough-edged, thin copper item is a fragment of what was likely a rectangular plate. It has a repousse (raised) design of sinuous, curving lines. The copper is dark gray, with some areas of moderate red and light green. This piece is 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: A4346_023989_001
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Indian copperwork; Mound-builders;
Places: Archaeology Collections, Ledger #2