Gorget   Save
Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This roughly rectangular, bar gorget expands slightly in the center, is flat on the bottom, and is slightly rounded on the top. There is a flat area at the midline along the length of the piece. In the center is a hole that was drilled from both sides. The gorget was broken in half and recently repaired, and is made of brownish gray and pale olive argillite. 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_000123_A
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders;
Places: Hopewell Mound Group