Theyre named for the farmer, Mordecai Hopewell, on whose land in Chillicothe, Ohio some of their earthwork mounds were first discovered in the 19th century. In some ways, they were like other ...

Publications of the Field Columbian Museum. Anthropological Series, Vol. 6, No. 5, THE HOPEWELL MOUND GROUP OF OHIO (1922), pp. 75-181, 183-185 (159 pages) ...

A 1,500-year-old rubbish heap unearthed in southern Ohio holds the answers to some key questions about the ancient Indians who lived there and built huge funeral mounds filled with offerings ...

as well as bowls and other objects recovered from mounds built by the prehistoric Hopewell people of the Scioto Valley. The ...

Another similar group of aboriginal mounds ... Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In fact, the system of trade may have been so advanced that it reached the coast as oceanic relics have been found at ...