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The Cole Culture (800–1300 CE) is a
''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places.''
St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Somerset Publishers, 1999. . {{Fort Ancient culture Archaeological sites in Ohio Delaware County, Ohio Woodland period Prehistoric cultures in Ohio 8th-century establishments in North America 13th-century disestablishments in North America
The Cole Culture (800–1300 CE) is a Late Woodland Period
In the classification of archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 BCE to European contact in the eastern part of North America, with some archaeologi ...
culture of Native American people
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Americans, and other terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the mainland United States (Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, Alaska and territories of the United States are ...
from central Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
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Cole Culture people made flint tools and pottery.Owen 328 They were agrarian and cultivated beans, maize, squash, and tobacco. Cole people buried their dead in subterranean graves instead of mounds. They shared many traits with the Hopewell tradition
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 1 ...
and might be descended from them.Owen 326 A major Cole Culture site is the Ufferman Site in Delaware County, Ohio
Delaware County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a frequent placeholder on the List of highest-income counties in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 214,124. Its county seat i ...
. Another is the Highbank Park Works
The Highbank Park Works (also known as the ''Orange Township Works'') is a complex of earthworks and a potential archaeological site located within Highbanks Metro Park in Central Ohio in the United States. The park is in southernmost Delaware ...
, also in Delaware County, built between 800 and 1300 CE.
See also
*Carl Potter Mound
The Carl Potter Mound (also known as "Hodge Mound II"; designated Smithsonian trinomial, 33CH11-II) is a historic tumulus, Native American mound in southern Champaign County, Ohio, Champaign County, Ohio, United States. Located near Mechanicsb ...
* Fort Ancient
Fort Ancient is a name for a Native American culture that flourished from Ca. 1000-1750 CE and predominantly inhabited land near the Ohio River valley in the areas of modern-day southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, southeastern Indiana and western ...
culture
* Monongahela culture
The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. The culture was named by Mary ...
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References
*Owen, Lorrie K., ed''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places.''
St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Somerset Publishers, 1999. . {{Fort Ancient culture Archaeological sites in Ohio Delaware County, Ohio Woodland period Prehistoric cultures in Ohio 8th-century establishments in North America 13th-century disestablishments in North America