Title	Adena Pottery
Subject	American Indians in Ohio Pottery
Place	Holmes County (Ohio) Ohio (entire state)
Description	These fragments of Adena pottery were excavated by Dr. Nigel Brush. The largest piece measures 10.24" x 4" x 9.45" (26 x 10 x 24 cm), and the two fragments are 2.34" x 2.34' (6 x 6 cm) and 4.72" x 4" (12 cm x 10 cm). The Adena Culture (500 B.C.- 200 A.D.), named for a mound found on the Chillicothe estate of Thomas Worthington, lived primarily in present-day Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. They built large effigy and burial mounds. The Adena were primarily hunter-gatherers, but began to grow squash and some weedy plants. The Woodland Period, which includes the Adena, Hopewell and Late Woodland cultures (1000 B.C.-1000 A.D.) is notable because the cultures experimented with agriculture, established more permanent settlements, made technological advances in hunting and food processing, and demonstrated increased complexity in social organization. In Ohio, elaborate burial mounds and earthworks, specialized craft products and long distance trade are evidence of these cultural changes.
Date of Original	800 B.C. to 100 A.D.
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s);
Submitting Institution	Killbuck Valley Museum
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information.
Type	StillImage
File Name	Om925_903334_001.tif
Image Height	1960
Image Width	3008
File Size	845.864 KB
Format	picture artifacts

Adena Pottery

Description

Tags

Comments