Hopewell Point   Save
Clifford Anderson Collection
Description: This dark gray Hopewell flint point has a small, triangular blade with an off-center tip. The base is nearly the same width as the blade and has wide, shallow corner notches. The blade has possibly been reworked on one side. 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: A2121_000332_003
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Projectile points
Places: Clifford Anderson Collection