Archaeological culture · c. 100 BCE – 500 CE

Hopewell tradition

Not one people but a network of Middle Woodland communities in the Eastern Woodlands, linked by trade and shared ceremonies. Its heartlands, in southern Ohio and the Illinois River valley, have huge geometric earthworks and burial mounds with ornaments of copper, mica and obsidian brought from hundreds of miles away.

Its exchange network reached from Lake Ontario to Florida.

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100 BCE – 500 CE