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The Trowbridge Archaeological Site is located in the vicinity of North 61st Street and Leavenworth Road in
Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As of ...
. Discovered in 1939 by amateur archaeologist Harry Trowbridge in his backyard, it was inhabited by the
Kansas City Hopewell The Kansas City Hopewell were the farthest west regional variation of the Hopewell tradition of the Middle Woodland period (100 BCE – 700 CE). Sites were located in Kansas and Missouri around the mouth of the Kansas River where it enters the Mi ...
culture. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
on February 24, 1971, and placed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places on July 1, 1977.


See also

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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 ...
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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 fr ...
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Mound builder (people) A number of pre-Columbian cultures are collectively termed "Mound Builders". The term does not refer to a specific people or archaeological culture, but refers to the characteristic mound earthworks erected for an extended period of more than ...
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Earthwork (archaeology) In archaeology, earthworks are artificial changes in land level, typically made from piles of artificially placed or sculpted rocks and soil. Earthworks can themselves be archaeological features, or they can show features beneath the surface. T ...


References

Kansas City Hopewell Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas History of Kansas City, Kansas Geography of Wyandotte County, Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Kansas City, Kansas Former Native American populated places in the United States Native American history of Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub