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Hopewell Mound Group
Description: This thick disk of sandstone was ground and polished. On one side, the edges are chipped and some areas have been repaired with painted plaster. The disk is predominantly reddish brown in color, but there are areas of reddish black on one side and yellowish red on the other. 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_000116_A_1
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders;
Places: Hopewell Mound Group