Please provide me with details about The Hopewell civilization?

Hopewells --------------- About 300 B.C., the Hopewell civilization began. The Hopewells were the second of the three Mound Building civilizations. They were the strongest civilization for 500 years and grew in the middle of the United States.

The Hopewells were skilled at arts and crafts. They wove mats, made ceramic pots, and carved figures from bone, wood, and metal. The Hopewells made spear points and knives from obsidian.

Hopewell clothing was made from animal skins. They wore jewelry made from copper and shells. Like the Olmecs, the Hopewell culture spread through trade.

Their trade reached from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Plains, and from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico.

- The Hopewell lived in villages along the rivers ,three rivers: The Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Illinois.. They traded with each other and with people from across the continent. Like the Adenas, the Hopewells grew some crops.

The Hopewells left beautiful artifacts in their mounds. For further info: http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/cunniff/americanhistorycentral/01firstamericans/The_Moundbuild.html#Hopewells http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/northamerica/culture/plains/hopewell2.html.

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. Village settlements date between 500 BC-AD 200; large shaped burial mounds and extensive trade networks are Adena/Hopewell characteristics.

The Hopewell are best known for their enormous effigy mounds, built all over the American midwest, many of which fell victim to agricultural activities of the American farmer and deliberate vandalism resulting from the collapse of the lost races myth (aka, moundbuilders theory). Hopewell Mica Claw, Ohio, North America.

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