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What languages were spoken by Adena Indians?
The Adena Indians are a culture which dates back into prehistoric times. Very little is known about them outside of the archaeological findings which have been unearthed. No one is sure what language the ancient Adena people may have spoken.
What was the religion of the adena?
The Adena were not very religious. Later as their culture grew they started to worship the sun. But that's about it.
What area of the US were the Adena Indians from?
Adena is the name given by modern historians to a whole prehistoric culture, not a single tribe. One theory says that the Adena people came from Mexico, moved along the Mississippi river to the Ohio valley; others claim that they always lived in the Ohio valley area and later expanded into Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The Adena culture was probably absorbed into the Hopewell culture around 700 AD.
What kind of food does the adena culture eat?
Cats and dogs.
One of the first group of mound builders was the?
Adena Culture
One of the first groups of mounds builders was the?
Adena Culture
What did the adena build?
The Adena culture, a prehistoric Native American culture that existed from around 1000 to 200 BC, is best known for building large burial mounds, often with conical shapes. These mounds were used to bury important members of their society and were sometimes accompanied by elaborate grave goods. The Adena people also built earthworks and ceremonial enclosures.
What language did the adena speak?
The Adena people likely spoke a Proto-Algonquian language, which is a language family that includes various Native American tribes. However, since the Adena culture predates written records, the exact language they spoke is not definitively known.
What is the largest burial mound built by the Adena people?
The Adena Mound
How are the Hopewell and Adena civilizations different?
Adena were there first (800 B.C. - 200 A.D.). The Hopewell culture came later but overlapped with the Adena (200 B.C. - 400/500 A.D.). Most theories hold that the two intermixed peacefully, and the Hopewell culture was an elaboration and extension of the Adena mound-building culture. Thus the Hopewell art, burial ceremonies, etc were more flamboyant than that of the earlier and more primitive Adena.
What developments in Adena culture came about as a results of the expansion of agriculture?
people gre more crops stayed in areas longer and developed elaborate ceremonies
What Indians are in West Virginia?
The mound builder culture, the Adena and Hopewell, the Woodland Montaine, the Mississipian culture, the Mason Island culture and then th Algonquian.
