Adena Pottery
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 |
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