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Title	Hopewell Mound Excavation Photographs
Subject	Science and Technology American Indians in Ohio Earthworks (Archaeology) Excavation Students Ovens Hopewell culture Archaeologists
Place	Chillicothe (Ohio) Ross County (Ohio)
Description	These photographs document the excavation of the Hopewell Mound Group in Ross County, Ohio in 2001. The first photograph shows students drawing a map of a prehistoric heating feature. A second photograph shows the excavation of a prehistoric earth oven. The archaeologist is studying soil color using a Munsell Soil Color Chart. Both photographs are 3" x 5" (7.62 x 12.7 cm). Hopewell Mound Group is a world-renowned archaeological site in Ross County, Ohio and is the namesake of the Hopewell culture. The site was first mapped in the early 1800s and the first extensive excavations took place there in the 1890s. Since 1998, work at the site has begun to rewrite the story of the Hopewell Mound Group. From about 200 B.C. to A.D. 500, the Ohio River valley was a focal point of the prehistoric Hopewell culture, a broad network of beliefs and practices among different American Indian groups over a large portion of eastern North America. The culture is characterized by the construction of enclosures made of earthen walls, often built in geometric patterns, and mounds of various shapes. Visible remnants of Hopewell culture are concentrated in the Scioto River valley near present-day Chillicothe, Ohio. The most striking Hopewell sites contain earthworks in the form of squares, circles, and other geometric shapes. Many of these sites were built to a monumental scale, with walls up to 12 feet high outlining geometric figures more than 1000 feet across. Conical and loaf-shaped earthen mounds up to 30 feet high are often found in association with the geometric earthworks.
Creator	National Park Service
Date of Original	2001
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; artifacts

Title	Om2546_1958712_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2546_1958712_001.tif
Image Height	1046
Image Width	1468
File Size	471.978 KB

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