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Ancient Monuments of America Giant Geometric Earthwork Complexes of the Hopewell Culture

Ancient Monuments of America Giant Geometric Earthwork Complexes of the Hopewell Culture. What’s so special about Hopewell Earthworks?. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance.

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Ancient Monuments of America Giant Geometric Earthwork Complexes of the Hopewell Culture

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  1. Ancient Monuments of America Giant Geometric Earthwork Complexes of the Hopewell Culture

  2. What’s so special about Hopewell Earthworks?

  3. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance.

  4. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are:

  5. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: • Geometrical

  6. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: Geometrical

  7. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: Geometrical Precise

  8. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: • Geometrical • Precise

  9. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: • Geometrical • Precise • Enormous

  10. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: Geometrical Precise Enormous

  11. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: • Geometrical • Precise • Enormous • Astronomically Aligned

  12. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: Geometrical Precise Enormous Astronomically Aligned

  13. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: • Geometrical • Precise • Enormous • Astronomically Aligned • and densely clustered around…

  14. Hopewell Earthworks - a cultural resource of national significance. Hopewell Earthwork Complexes are: • Geometrical • Precise • Enormous • Aligned • and densely clustered around… southern Ohio

  15. The Hopewell Heartland

  16. A prehistoric fascination with… GEOMETRY

  17. A prehistoric fascination with… GEOMETRY

  18. A prehistoric fascination with… GEOMETRY Embankment walls enclose the perfect shapes of:

  19. A prehistoric fascination with… GEOMETRY Embankment walls enclose the perfect shapes of: circles

  20. A prehistoric fascination with… GEOMETRY Embankment walls enclose the perfect shapes of: circles squares

  21. A prehistoric fascination with… GEOMETRY Embankment walls enclose the perfect shapes of: circles squares and other polygons

  22. A prehistoric fascination with… GEOMETRY Embankment walls enclose the perfect shapes of: circles squares and other polygons Parallel walls form mysterious passageways.

  23. A culture advanced in… MATHEMATICS

  24. A culture advanced in… MATHEMATICS Precise Measurements and Masterful Engineering

  25. A culture advanced in… MATHEMATICS Precise Measurements and Masterful Engineering These four giant complexes are miles apart, yet their design and dimensions are strikingly similar, all comprised of a small circle, a large circle and a square. When measured by Squier and Davis in the 1840’s, the four great squares were all 1,080 feet to a side, 27.2 acres! Geometric enclosures with nearly identical dimensions are common in widely separated Hopewell earthwork complexes.

  26. Engineering on a grand scale

  27. Engineering on a grand scale

  28. Engineering on a grand scale The Newark Earthworks stretch across a 4½ square mile area!

  29. ENORMOUS

  30. ENORMOUS

  31. ENORMOUS Earthwork walls more than ten feet high and fifty feet wide,

  32. ENORMOUS Earthwork walls more than ten feet high and fifty feet wide, that stretch on for miles!

  33. Larger than a small European country?

  34. Larger than a small European country?

  35. Ancient Astronomers

  36. Ancient Astronomers Astronomical alignments are common characteristic of Hopewell earthworks. The architects of these massive complexes planned them to point to important phases in the movements of the sun and the moon.

  37. Ancient Astronomers Astronomical alignments are common characteristic of Hopewell earthworks. The architects of these massive complexes planned them to point to important phases in the movements of the sun and the moon. One of the most dramatic examples is High Bank Works, part of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Here, there are no burial mounds. This ceremonial complex was designed to be nothing less than a giant astronomical observatory.

  38. Ancient Astronomers

  39. Ancient Astronomers

  40. Ancient Astronomers

  41. Ancient Astronomers

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