Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about 200 BC to 500 AD. The park is composed of four separate sites open to the public in Ross County, Ohio, including the former Mound City Group National Monument. The park includes archaeological resources of the Hopewell culture. It is administered by the United States Department of the Interior's National Park Service.
Restored mounds in the Hopewell Culture NHP
Entry sign at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Mound City Site
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 northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period. The Hopewell tradition was not a single culture or society but a widely dispersed set of populations connected by a common network of trade routes.
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