Mound City National Monument: Historic Structures and Grounds Report Part I, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Cotter J. 1963. Mound City National Monument: Historic Structures and Grounds Report Part I, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Historic Grounds Report. Midwest Regional Office
Mound City Group is comprised of 24 restored conical burial mounds inside a sub-rectangular earthwork enclosure outside of which are borrow pits and on the west side two small additional conical mounds. The importance of Mound City Group lies in its being the most documented and only completely restored and preserved earthwork necropolis emaining of the dozens of such sites attributed to the Hopewellian people of 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. which once dotted the Scioto Valley. As such, Mound City Group is a unique interpretive memorial to a notable prehistoric American people of great artistic and creative ability whose ceremonies were some of the most elaborate revealed by archeology in this hemisphere. From Mound CIty Group there was taken by Squire and Davis and Mills and Shetrone one of the great collections of artistic and unique funeral artifacts associated with the custom of cremation burial mound building. The bulk of this collection is maintained at the Ohio State Museum for research and display purposes. A selection of artifacts and duplicates are displayed at the Visitor Center at Mound City Group. Certain of the Squire and Davis selection of artifacts remain in the British National Museum, London.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cotter, John
- Date of Issue
- 1963-01
- Units
- HOCU , MWR
- Keywords
- Archeology, Artifacts, borrow pits, Burial Mounds, Chillicothe, Earthworks, embankments, Ethnography, Hopewell, interpretive memorial, Necropolis, Ohio, Scioto Valley