Not Just a Hunting Ground: Native Americans in Kentucky
Cultural Periods of Native North American Indians In Ohio Valley
Ohio Hopewell (200 BCE - 500 CE) were preceded by Adena Culture.
The greatest concentration of Hopewell ceremonial sites is in the Scioto River Valley (from Columbus to Portsmouth, Ohio) and adjacent Paint Creek, centered on Chillicothe, Ohio. These cultural centers typically contain a burial mound and a geometric earthwork complex that covers ten to hundreds of acres and sparse settlements; evidence of large resident populations is lacking at the monument complexes. Fort Ancient [TOO FAR NORTH to be in our area] succeeded the Ohio Hopewell (200 BCE - 500 CE) Fort Ancient is a name for a Native American culture that flourished from 1000-1750 CE among a people who predominantly inhabited land along the Ohio River in areas of modern-day southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, southeastern Indiana and western West Virginia. They were a maize-based agricultural society who lived in sedentary villages and built burial mounds. The Fort Ancient culture was once thought to have been an expansion of the Mississippian cultures. It is now accepted as an independently developed culture that descended from the Hopewell culture (100 CDE - 500 CE). The Fort Ancient Culture's most famous mound is called the serpent mound. Mississippian Related Cultures Close to our area are the Annis (very closeby), Kincaid (slighty West), Castalian Springs and Sellars (SouthEast) |