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Hopewell Mound Group
Description: These irregularly shaped, angular fragments are from a broken disk. Several fragments have been glued into two major segments which do not fit together. The translucent quartz crystal is pale yellow in color. 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_000135_A
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders;
Places: Hopewell Mound Group