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Fort Ancient Collection
Description: This undecorated ceramic rim has a flat lip and consists of three pieces that have been glued together. The sherd is dark reddish gray and very dark gray in color, with some small spots that are pink. 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: A1039_000065_001
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Pottery, Prehistoric
Places: Fort Ancient Collection