By: Allison Fritsch and Lauren Mayhugh

started 100 BC ended AD 500

From Adena culture

Ohio and Illinois river valleys

Very few Hopewell houses have been found and even fewer Hopewell villages. Lived in square houses

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

disappeared with little explanation around 500 AD

first Ohio natives to be magnificent artisans skilled at creating ornaments and other objects developed form of writing