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Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This ground and polished stone bar is roughly rectangular with tapering ends. It is D-shaped in cross-section; in longitudinal cross-section, one end tapers down while the opposite end flares outward. There is a hole through the center of the bar. This piece is made of grayish green chlorite and 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_000312_1
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders;
Places: Hopewell Mound Group