Where did the hopewell mound builders live?

Answer 1

The Hopewell Indians were part of a huge trading network that stretched across the central United States. The most sophisticated settlements of the Hopewell are in Ohio and Illinois, but their decorations and jewelry indicate that they've also settled in Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, and states along the Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Hopewell does not refer to one group of Native Americans but a tradition (@ 200 B.C.E. - @ 500 C.E.) among a wildly dispersed set of related population which were connected by a common network of trade routes. The Native Americans involved in this network were basically situated along the rivers in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States. The states include western New York, Southern Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Kansas and south into Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia. They are most noteable for the burial/religious mounds especially in Ohio.

Aside from the more famous Ohio Hopewell, a number of other Middle Woodland period cultures are known to have been involved in the Hopewell tradition and participated in the Hopewell Exchange Network.

1)The origins of the Hopewell tradition started in western New York then it went westward into Ohio.

2)Ohio Hopewell culture

The greatest concentration of Hopewell ceremonial sites are in the Scioto River Valley (from Columbusto Portsmouth, Ohio) and adjacent Paint Creek, centered on Chillicothe, Ohio. These cultural centers typically contain a burial mound and a geometric earthwork complex that covers ten to hundreds of acres and sparse settlements; evidence of large resident populations is lacking at the monument complexes.The Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, encompassing mounds for which the culture is named, is in the Paint Creek Valley just a few miles fromChillicothe, Ohio.

The Portsmouth Earthworks were constructed from 100 BCE to 500 CE It is a large ceremonial center located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio rivers. Part of this earthwork complex extends across the Ohio River into Kentucky. The earthworks included a northern section consisting of a number of circular enclosures, two large horseshoe-shaped enclosures, and three sets of parallel-walled roads leading away from this location. One set of walls went to the southwest and may have linked to alarge square enclosure located on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. Another set went to the southeast where it crossed the Ohio River and continued to the Biggs site, a complicated circular enclosure. The third set of walls went to the northwest for an undetermined distance, in the direction of theTremper Site.

3) Copena culture:

The Copena culture was a Hopewellian culture in northern Alabama, Mississippi andTennessee as well as in other sections of the surrounding region including Kentucky. The Copena name is derived from the first three letter of copper and the last three letters of the mineral galena. Copper and galena artifacts are often associated with Copena burials.

4)Crab Orchard culture:During the Middle Woodland period, the Crab Orchard culture population increased from a dispersed and sparsely settled Early Woodland pattern to one consisting of small and large base camps. These were concentrated on terrace and floodplain landforms associated with the Ohio River channel in southern Indiana, southern Illinois and northwestern and westernKentucky. In the far western limits of Crab Orchard culture is the O'byams Fort site, a large tuning-fork-shaped earthwork reminiscent of Ohio Hopewell enclosures

5)Goodall Focus:

The Goodall Focus occupied WesternMichigan, Michigan and northernIndiana from around 200 BC to 500 CE. The Goodall pattern stretched from the southern tip of Lake Michigan, east across northern Indiana, to the Ohio border, then northward, covering central Michigan, almost reaching to Saginaw Bay on the east and Grand Traverse Bay to the north. The culture is named for the Goodall site in northwest Indiana.

6)Havana Hopewell culture

The Havana Hopewell culture were a Hopewellian people in the Illinois River and Mississippi River valleys in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. They are ancestral to the groups which eventually became theMississippian culture of Cahokia and its hinterlands.

7)Kansas City Hopewell

At the western edge of the Hopewell interaction sphere are the Kansas City Hopewell. The Renner Village Archaeological Site in Riverside, Missouri is one of several sites near the junction of Line Creek and the Missouri River. Laurel Complex

8)The Laurel Complex was a Native American culture in southern Quebec, southern and northwestern Ontario and east-centralManitoba in Canada and northern Michigan, northwestern Wisconsin and northernMinnesota in the United States. They were the first pottery using people of Ontario north of the Trent-Severn Waterway. The complex is named after the formerunincorporated community of Laurel, Minnesota.

9)Marksville culture

The Marksville culture was a Hopewellian culture in the Lower Mississippi valley,Yazoo valley, and Tensas valley areas of Louisiana, Mississippi,Missouri and Arkansas. It evolved into the Baytown culture and later the Coles Creek and Plum Bayou cultures. It is named for the Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site inMarksville, Louisiana.

10) Point Peninsula Complex

The Point Peninsula Complex was a Native American culture located in Ontario and New York during the Middle Woodland period, thought to have been influenced by the Hopewell traditions of the Ohio River valley. This influence seems to have ended about 250 CE, after which burial ceremonialism is no longer practiced.

Saugeen Complex

The Saugeen Complex was a Native American culture located around the southeast shores of Lake Huron and the Bruce Peninsula, around theLondon area, and possibly as far east as the Grand River. There is evidence that the Saugeen complex people of the Bruce Peninsula may have evolved into the Odawa people(Ottawa).

12)Swift Creek culture

The Swift Creek culture was a MiddleWoodland period archaeological culture inGeorgia, Alabama,Florida, South Carolina, andTennessee dating to around 100-800 CE.

Answer 4

the hopewell were the second of the three moundbuilders civilizations.they were the strongest civilization for 500 years and grew in the middle of the united states.hopewell trade reached from the Atlantic Ocean to the great planes,and fromlake supirior to the Gulf of Mexico

Answer 5

the hopewell Indians lived in the southern part of Ohio

Answer 6

It was much more than a tribe, it was a culture that spread through much of the north east of America.