When you arrive at the threshold of Mound City in
Chillicothe, the view before you is, as its name suggests, reminiscent of a
cityscape…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…
Mound City is a set of at least 25 burial mounds surrounded
by a roughly rectangular earthen embankment. Located in Chillicothe, it is one
of the most spectacular sites of the Hopewell culture, circa 100 B.C. to A.D.
400, and is the main attraction of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park…CLICK
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The Hopewell civilization (also called Adena in some regions) is a prehistoric culture of the American middle west. Recent evidence has pretty much proven that Adena is indistinguishable from the Hopewell of the central North American continent, although there may some regional variations...