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Edwin Harness Collection
Description: This flint biface of the Snyder's type has a triangular blade, corner notches, and a rounded base. The biface has been fire damaged, resulting in the adhesion of several deposits to one face. The flint is very dark gray, white, and red. 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: A0007_000031_001
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mound-builders; Projectile points
Places: Edwin Harness Collection