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The Hopewell Native Americans. By: Allison Fritsch and Lauren Mayhugh. Time Period. started 100 BC ended AD 500. Developed. From Adena culture. Location. Ohio and Illinois river valleys. Houses. V ery few Hopewell houses have been found and even fewer Hopewell villages.
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The Hopewell Native Americans By: Allison Fritsch and Lauren Mayhugh
Time Period • started 100 BC ended AD 500
Developed • From Adena culture
Location • Ohio and Illinois river valleys
Houses • Very few Hopewell houses have been found and even fewer Hopewell villages. • Lived in square houses
Leaders • Had leaders, but they were not like powerful rulers who could command armies of slaves and soldiers • Acquired their position because of their ability to persuade others to agree with them on important matters such as trade and religion.
Food • raised corn and possibly beans and squash but still relied on hunting and gathering • hunted rabbit, elk, bear, turkey, grouse, raccoon, duck, squirrel, and deer. • prepared food by heating up stones over a fire, then putting the stones in a pot of water which boiled the water. Then they put the food in the boiling water and it cooked until it was ready to eat.
Weapons • carved spear points out of obsidian • Two Hopewell blades composed of Flint Ridge flint were located at the Eiden archaeological site near the confluence of the Black River and French Creek.
Art • made very nice works of art. • used obsidian, sharks' teeth, turtle shells, and flints. • made bracelets and beads out of copper. • artists made mica into mirrors and fragile animal and human shapes.
Clothing • Women wore their hair pinned in a bun with a wooden dowel or with bones, sometimes in a knot or ponytail • Men wore their hair in a Mohawk and wore ornaments from head to toe.
Mounds • Mounds larger and more elaborate than the Adenas • Mounds have given the Hopewell their second name, the Mound Builders. • used for burials, molded into symbolic shapes effigies of animals with nothing inside, used as foundations for temples, platforms for mounds built on top of mounds.
Disappearance • disappeared with little explanation around 500 AD
Fun Facts • first Ohio natives to be magnificent artisans • skilled at creating ornaments and other objects • developed form of writing
Citations www.ohiohistorycentral.orgwww.mnsu.eduwww.wikipedia.orgwww.answers.comwww.nrschools.orgwww.ancestral.com www.examiner.com www.union-county.lib.in.us/moundbuilders.htmwww.examiner.comwww.union-county.lib.in.us/moundbuilders.htmhttps://www.cvsd.org