Snyder's Point   Save
Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This thin, well-chipped biface is of the Snyder's type. It was made from a petal form or leaf-shaped preform. There are corner notches and some minor damage repair to the extreme proximal edge. The point is very pale brown 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_000043
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Projectile points
Places: Hopewell Mound Group