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Havana Hopewell Culture
The Havana Hopewell culture were a Hopewellian people who lived in the Illinois River and Mississippi River valleys in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri from 200 BCE to 400 CE. Hopewell Interaction Sphere The Hopewell Exchange system began in the Ohio and Illinois River Valleys around 300 BCE. The culture is referred to more as a system of interaction among a variety of societies than as a single society or culture. The central Illinois River Valley was home to one particular complex, the Havana Hopewell culture. Havana Hopewell sites have been found in Illinois, northwest Indiana, southwest Michigan, southern Wisconsin, and Minnesota and northeast Iowa. Hopewell trading networks were quite extensive, with obsidian from the Yellowstone area, copper from Lake Superior, and shells from the Gulf Coast. Havana Hopewell sites Toolesboro Mound Group The Toolesboro Mound Group in Louisa County, Iowa included a large octagonal earthen enclosure that covered several acres; earthworks of thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Approximate Geographic Extent Of Havana Hopewell
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Iowa River
The Iowa River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the state of Iowa in the United States. It is about longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed May 13, 2011 and is open to small river craft to Iowa City, about from its mouth. Its major tributary is the Cedar River. Course It rises in two branches, the West Branch and East Branch, both of which have their headwaters in Hancock County, each about long and which join in Belmond. The Iowa then proceeds roughly in a southeast direction, passing through the city of Iowa Falls, through a scenic valley to Steamboat Rock, then through the cities of Eldora, Marshalltown, Tama, and Marengo, and through the Amana Colonies in Iowa County. In Johnson County, it becomes impounded by the Coralville Dam in the Coralville Reservoir, which turns southward to the spillway. The river runs generally south and passes through Iowa City and the University of Iow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mounds In Illinois
A mound is an artificial heap or pile, especially of earth, rocks, or sand. Mound and Mounds may also refer to: Places * Mound, Louisiana, United States * Mound, Minnesota, United States * Mound, Texas, United States * Mound, West Virginia * Mound Creek, a stream in Minnesota * Mounds, Illinois, United States * Mounds, Oklahoma, United States * The Mound, a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, linking the Old Town and the New Town * The Mound railway station, a former station in northern Scotland Arts, entertainment, and media * Mound, a fictional entity in the work of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock * ''The Mound'' (novella), a 1940 work by H. P. Lovecraft Other uses * Mound, monumental earthwork mound built by prehistoric Mound builder (people) * Mound Laboratories, a nuclear laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio that was a part of the Manhattan Project * Mounds (candy), a candy bar * Pitchers mound, a raised surface on a baseball diamond from which pitches are thrown See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodland Period
In the classification of :category:Archaeological cultures of North America, archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 Common Era, BCE to European contact in the eastern part of North America, with some archaeologists distinguishing the Mississippian period, from 1000 CE to European contact as a separate period. The term "Woodland Period" was introduced in the 1930s as a generic term for prehistoric, prehistoric sites falling between the Archaic period in the Americas, Archaic hunter-gatherers and the agriculturalist Mississippian cultures. The Eastern Woodlands cultural region covers what is now eastern Canada south of the Subarctic region, the Eastern United States, along to the Gulf of Mexico. This period is variously considered a developmental stage, a time period, a suite of technological adaptations or "traits", and a "family tree" of cultures related to earlier Archaic cultures. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pre-Columbian Cultures
This list of pre-Columbian cultures includes those civilizations and cultures of the Americas which flourished prior to the European colonization of the Americas. Cultural characteristics Many pre-Columbian civilizations established permanent or urban settlements, agriculture, and complex societal hierarchies. In North America, indigenous cultures in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Middle Archaic period built complexes of multiple mounds, with several in Louisiana dated to 5600–5000 BP (3700 BC–3100 BC). Watson Brake is considered the oldest, multiple mound complex in the Americas, as it has been dated to 3500 BC. It and other Middle Archaic sites were built by pre-ceramic, hunter-gatherer societies. They preceded the better known Poverty Point culture and its elaborate complex by nearly 2,000 years. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana Hopewell Culture
The Havana Hopewell culture were a Hopewellian people who lived in the Illinois River and Mississippi River valleys in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri from 200 BCE to 400 CE. Hopewell Interaction Sphere The Hopewell Exchange system began in the Ohio and Illinois River Valleys around 300 BCE. The culture is referred to more as a system of interaction among a variety of societies than as a single society or culture. The central Illinois River Valley was home to one particular complex, the Havana Hopewell culture. Havana Hopewell sites have been found in Illinois, northwest Indiana, southwest Michigan, southern Wisconsin, and Minnesota and northeast Iowa. Hopewell trading networks were quite extensive, with obsidian from the Yellowstone area, copper from Lake Superior, and shells from the Gulf Coast. Havana Hopewell sites Toolesboro Mound Group The Toolesboro Mound Group in Louisa County, Iowa included a large octagonal earthen enclosure that covered several acres; earthworks of thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Hopewell Sites
This is a list of Hopewell sites. The Hopewell tradition (also incorrectly called the "Hopewell culture") refers to the common aspects of the Native American culture that flourished along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern United States from 200 BCE to 500 CE. The Hopewell tradition was not a single culture or society, but a widely dispersed set of related populations that were connected by a common network of trade routes, known as the Hopewell Exchange System. See also * Hopewell tradition * National Register of Historic Places listings in Ross County, Ohio * National Register of Historic Places listings in Warren County, Ohio __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Warren County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, Ohio, Uni ... References External links {{Pre-Columbian North America +Sites Hopewell sites +H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinnissippi Mounds
The Sinnissippi Mounds are a Havana Hopewell culture burial mound grouping located in the city of Sterling, Illinois, United States. History The mounds are a product of the Hopewell tradition which flourished in the Sterling area around 2,000 years ago. At that time, the area was at the center of a vast trade network that stretched up and down the Mississippi River. Mounds such as the Sinnissippi are common throughout the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.Walters, Andrew.Historian's work unravels mystery of local mounds, ''saukvalley.com'', February 12, 2007, accessed April 15, 2008. Modern discovery The first European settler in Sterling, Hezekiah Brink, noted the mounds when he arrived in 1834. Among some of the other early European settlers was a group of men who were interested in starting a Science Club. The Sterling Scientific Club, in existence as early as the 1870s, made one of their goals the investigation of the burial mounds near the Rock River.Benson, Gunner.The Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockwell Mound
Rockwell Mound has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987. The mound is located in Rockwell Park, on North Orange Street in the Illinois River city of Havana in Mason County. Rockwell Mound is one of the site that the Register has denoted as being "address restricted" because of its special sensitivity. Despite this designation by the Register the mound is operated as a park as of 2007.Seven Decades of Archaeology Dickson Mounds Museum, Illinois State Museum, Retrieved January 26, 2007. History Rockwell Mound is one of the largest mounds ever built in the basin. The earthen mound dates to around AD 200, covers almos ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples Mound 8
The Naples Mound 8 (also ''Naples-Russel Mound 8'' or ''Illinois Archaeological Survey #PK 335'') is a Havana Hopewell culture mound site located in Pike County, Illinois three miles east of the city of Griggsville. The mound was given the name Naples Mound #8 in 1882. The mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. First recorded visit In May and June 1834, Joseph Smith led a Latter Day Saint group of 150 men known as Zion's Camp on a march from Kirtland, Ohio Kirtland is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 6,937 at the 2020 census. Kirtland is known for being the early headquarters of the Latter Day Saint movement from 1831 to 1837 and is the site of the movement's first t ..., to Jackson County, Missouri. On June 3, while passing through west-central Illinois three miles east of Griggsville, Illinois, some men discovered a large burial mound on the west side of the Illinois River one mile south of present-day Valley c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mound House (Greene County, Illinois)
The Mound House is an archeological site located in Greene County, Illinois in the Illinois River floodplain. The site is a multicomponent site; however, the mounds were constructed during the Middle Woodland and are associated with the Havana Hopewell culture. The mound center has two identified mounds.Maruszak, Kathleen. ''National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mound House Site''. National Park Service, 1977-07, 4. The site received its name because the previous landowner, a farmer, built a house on Mound 1, the largest mound. Since then the house has been removed and the land is owned by the Center for American Archeology. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 1, 1978. See also *List of archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois __NOTOC__ This is a list of archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois. Historic sites in the United States qualify ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albany Mounds State Historic Site
Albany Mounds State Historic Site, also known as Albany Mounds Site, is a historic site operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. It spans over 205 acres of land near the Mississippi river at the northwest edge of the state of Illinois in the United States. In 1974, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places list. The historical site is under the provision of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, a governmental agency founded in 1985 for the maintaining of historical sites within the state. In the 1990s, the site underwent a restoration project that aimed to return its appearance to its original condition."The Albany Mounds." Albany Mounds Historic Site. Web. 10 Dec. 2015. Background Considered to be one of the most important archaeological sites in the state of Illinois, the site aims to exist as "an interpretive center for the history of the Hopewellian culture of more than 2000 years ago." It is the largest Hopewell Native American site in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
