#hopewellculture

[andrewgarick]

#hopewellculturenationalhistoricalpark #hopewellculture #nps #nationalpark #ohio #midwest (at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPb_yBRridn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[darinboville]

An excerpt from my blog, A Bigger Camera, at www.abiggercamera.com. Link in bio. • It doesn’t look like much at first but it is astonishing nonetheless. A rampart of earth, grass covered with trees here and there rises up before you, a gap in the rampart beckoning you in. And you go in, and it’s all flat, mown grass inside, with trees. The earthen rampart continues inside you can now see, you are standing at the edge of a large circle that curves left and right away from you. It’s twelve hundred feet to the far side. This is one of the Indian mounds of the Hopewell Culture, the phrase seeming to be the anthropologist’s equivalent of “we really have no idea who these people were but they were connected with other, similar groups from here to Florida.” Most Indian mounds are just that, mounds. You can’t even be sure it is an Indian mound because it just looks like an odd knoll. But here in Heath, Ohio, they don’t fool around. Their mound looks to be a fortress of some sort, a wall eight to ten feet high with a five foot deep moat on the inside. It is most impressive. • • • #hopewellculture #indianmounds #newarkearthworks #healthpohio #archeology #anthropology #unesco (at Great Circle Earthworks and Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2-gPZlW1O/?igshid=wq6blvxaiyce

[mbsposts]

Hopewell Culture NHP by Brian