By: Allison Fritsch and Lauren Mayhugh

The Hopewell Native Americans

started 100 BC ended AD 500

Time Period

From Adena culture

Developed

Ohio and Illinois river valleys

Location

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

Lived in square houses

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.

 

Leaders

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.

Food

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.

Weapons

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.

Art

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.  

Clothing

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.

Mounds

disappeared with little explanation around 500 AD

Disappearance

first Ohio natives to be magnificent artisansskilled at creating ornaments and other

objectsdeveloped form of writing

Fun Facts

www.ohiohistorycentral.org www.mnsu.edu www.wikipedia.org www.answers.com www.nrschools.org www.ancestral.com www.examiner.com www.union-county.lib.in.us/moundbuilders.htm www.examiner.com www.union-county.lib.in.us/moundbuilders.htm https://www.cvsd.org

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