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Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This ground and polished, ovoid quartz crystal boatstone is concave on one side and convex on the other, and has a hole drilled in the center. The convex side has some remnants of the facets of the original crystal. It is a translucent, very pale brown and reddish yellow color. The boatstone is fragmented and has been repaired with glue and wax. 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: A0283_000313_A_1
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders;
Places: Hopewell Mound Group