Ohio’s Hopewell culture was an explosion of art, architecture and ceremony that reverberated across eastern North America between about A.D. 1 and 400. One of its hallmarks was the accumulation of ...

There has been quite a lot of discussion recently about what makes America great. Some think we have lost a measure of our greatness and look to the past for a sense of what it might take to make us ...

University of Cincinnati archaeologist Kenneth Tankersley and a team of six other researchers recently proposed that a comet exploded over what is now Cincinnati between AD 252 and 383. They claim the ...

The heartland of the ancient Hopewell culture was in southern Ohio. It was here, 2,000 years ago, in what are now Chillicothe, Newark and other places, where these indigenous people built their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Ohio’s indigenous American Indian Hopewell culture, which dates from around AD 1 to ...

Angel Mounds, located along the Ohio River in southwestern Indiana, was an important center of the Mississippian culture between about AD 1000 and 1450. This ancient American Indian town sprawled ...

Chapter 1. More than mounds and ditches, an introduction to Ohio Hopewell ceremonial landscapes. Ohio and the Beginning of North American archaeology -- Mortuary mounds and artifacts -- Expanding ...

On November 14, 2003 Hopewell's archaeology program was presented to a large academic audience at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, held this year in Charlotte, North Carolina. A five foot ...

NEWARK, Ohio—India has the Taj Mahal. Egypt has the Great Pyramid of Giza. Ohio has the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. The earthworks, an archipelago of eight sites sprinkled through central and ...

The native cultures of ancient North America expressed their close relationship to animals in their art and their rituals, none more so than the Hopewell Culture, which flourished along the rivers of ...

City Point has a long, multicultural, and nationally significant history. Some signs of the past are obvious from even a casual glance–the houses and churches of the historic district, Civil War ...