Hopewell culture

See also: Hopewell

The culture Hopewell indicates the Amerindian culture which developed along the rivers of the North-East and of the midwest of the the United States of IIe century before J. - C. in Ve century after J. - C. It succeeds the culture Adena and like it is attached to the people of the Mound Builders. With its apogee, it related to the territories going of the west of New York to the Missouri and of the Wisconsin to the the Mississippi, including banks of the Lake Ontario.

The burials become extensive; a communication network with long distance develops.

The Hopewell villages are localized in the most various biotopes with very varied natural resources. Marrows and beans, collecting and gathering continue to provide a big part of the food intake. The corn is present in the last sites of the period, but seems to have played only one minor part. The habitat of Hopewells is close to the Wigwam close tribes

The Hopewell sites reveal ground buildings, with some five height meters benches defining of the circular, rectangular and octagonal zones, on an total surface area being able to reach 40 hectares. Funerary furniture, of great quality, indicates the existence of a social network and monk who imports exotic materials: shells of the Gulf of Mexico to the Michigan and the Wisconsin, teeth of sharks in the Illinois, copper close to the Higher Lake, obsidian and teeth of grizzly come from the “Far West” in Illinois and the Ohio, mica and flint. The archeologists also found objects carved in bone and horn, like musical instruments

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