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The Marietta Earthworks is an archaeological site located at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers in Washington County, Ohio, United States. Most of this Hopewellian complex of earthworks is now covered by the modern city of Marietta. Archaeologists have dated the ceremonial site's construction to approximately 100 BCE to 500 CE.
The Newark Earthworks in Newark and Heath, Ohio, consist of three sections of preserved earthworks: the Great Circle Earthworks, the Octagon Earthworks, and the Wright Earthworks. This complex, built by the Hopewell culture between 100 BCE and 400 CE, contains the largest earthen enclosures in the world, and was about 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) in ...
Chillicothe, Ohio: 24 Mounds of varying sizes and purposes surrounded by a low embankment wall across the Scioto River from the Hopeton Earthworks. Most display evidence of burial and/or ceremonial use and large numbers of artistic objects made of exotic materials have been found in the mound. Heavily degraded by over a century of agricultural use.
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, a network of sacred gathering spaces built by Indigenous people in Ohio, was featured on "CBS News Sunday Morning."
Here in Ohio, that standard is evident in the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, the collective name for the eight works of human creative genius constructed between 1,600 and 2,000 years ago by ...
The Portsmouth Earthworks are a large prehistoric mound complex constructed by the Native American Adena and Ohio Hopewell cultures of eastern North America (100 BCE to 500 CE). [2] The site was one of the largest earthwork ceremonial centers constructed by the Hopewell and is located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, in present ...
Preservationists, led by the Ohio History Connection, and indigenous tribes, many with ancestral ties to the state, pushed to recognize the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks for their good condition ...
Hopeton Earthworks located across the Scioto River from Mound City and High Bank Works, which is closed to the public. The Ohio Historical Society also maintains a number of mound systems and elaborate earthworks in the southern Ohio area, including the National Historic Landmarks of Fort Ancient, Newark Earthworks, and Serpent Mound. Fifteen ...