Items found under the mounds at Mound City or the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park include:
carved effigy pipes in the shape of birds, animals and reptiles
copper and obsidian artifacts
burial remains
cremated human remains
utensils and pottery used for feasts and religious rituals
copper falcon effigies
fragments of skulls
human-shaped copper headdress
tools
elk and bear teeth
shell beads
freshwater mussels
why were the mounds that the Adena and Hopewell so important
Hopewell people build mounds for burial grounds.
They buried their dead in mounds
for burial mounds and for burial homes
large burial mounds
Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippians
why were the mounds that arena and hopewell built so important
They had permanently settled into areas.
adena hopewell fort ancient
They both build burial mounds
It is the Hopewell.
They had permanently settled into areas.