Title	Bladelet
Subject	Hopewell culture Woodland culture Mound-builders Tools, Prehistoric
Time Period	Middle Woodland
Description	This bladelet, made of dark bluish gray and bluish gray Upper Mercer flint, is slightly curved and rounded at both ends. The sides of the bladelet are parallel and there is a flake scar running the entire length of the dorsal side. This piece is from Hopewell Culture. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior.
Collection	Raymond J. Ater Collection
Source	WH04 Box AC0011; A 3062/000163.003
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/collections--archives/digital-collections--services/rights--reproduction
Type	StillImage
File Name	A3062_000163_003.tif
Image Height	2448
Image Width	3264
File Size	23982016 Bytes
Format	picture; artifacts
Extent	11.9 mm wide, 83.3 mm long, 3.8 mm deep, 3 g weight.

Bladelet

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