they built cone shaped mounds to bury the dead
mound diggers
The Mound Builders who were Adena and Hopewell and Mississippian.
adena hopewell fort ancient
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.
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The Adena Mound
The Adena people built the Serpent Mound in present-day Ohio, USA. The mound is an ancient effigy mound representing a serpent and is one of the largest earthwork effigies in the world.
Ohio
mound diggers
The Mound Builders who were Adena and Hopewell and Mississippian.
They are both mound builders.
They are both mound builders.
adena hopewell fort ancient
adena hopewell fort ancient
Adena Culture
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.
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