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Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This polished, cannel coal celt (ungrooved ax) is roughly rectangular. The poll end tapers slightly and is flat, while the sharpened end is wide. The blade edge curves slightly outward, and the sides are rounded. This piece is black in color 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_000211_1
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Tools, Prehistoric
Places: Hopewell Mound Group