Crystal River Archaeological State Park is a 25 ha Florida state park in Citrus County, preserving the pre-Columbian mound complex officially designated the Crystal River Site and the associated Rober
Mound A, the largest earthwork at the site
A view of Mound A before its partial destruction by developers
Mound A seen from the interpretive trail
Mound H, the platform mound bounding the north side of the plaza
Hopewell tradition
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The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northea
Crystal River Archaeological State Park
…limestone stelae uncovered as the property was cleared for state park development in 1964. William H. Sears's 1962 paper placed the site within the Hopewell interaction sphere as a primarily mortuary center, an interpretation that dominated the following four decades. The multi-year reinvestigation by Pluckhahn and Thompson…
Hopewell Interaction Area and local expressions of the Hopewell tradition
Hopewell mounds from the Mound City Group in Ohio
Carved mica hand, Hopewell Mounds
Serpent effigy, Turner Group, Mound 4, Little Miami Valley, OH