UNESCO just added 42 new places to its World Heritage Sites. Of those 42, just one is in the United States: the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Ohio. The earthworks are mounds created by Native ...

When our earthworks achieve World Heritage status in 2023, the official name of the new World Heritage site, which will include the Newark Earthworks, the Fort Ancient Earthworks, and the earthworks ...

How did Ohio’s Hopewell culture do what it did? These ancient American Indian people lived in small, widely scattered communities; yet they gathered in large numbers to worship within enormous earthen ...

Curiosity overcame us as we stood at the base of a towering Ohio hill that was not formed by geology. The massive mound was constructed by people about 2,000 years ago. How could they have moved ...

I started in Newark, but Fort Ancient probably offers the best introduction to the Hopewell culture in Ohio, thanks to the park’s large museum on Ohio’s American Indian history. The museum covers ...

For 400 years, Indigenous North Americans flocked to a group of ceremonial sites in what is present-day Ohio to celebrate their culture and honor their dead. On Saturday, the sheer magnitude of the ...

Falcons appear frequently in the art of the ancient American Indian Hopewell culture, which was centered in southern Ohio between about A.D. 1 and 400. These distinctive birds are depicted in a ...

Ball State Professor of Anthropology Mark Hill thinks it comes down to social networks, not trade. Using technology like X-ray fluorescence and mass spectrometry, researchers have determined ...

Mound City Group, one of six properties that make up Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Chillicothe. (Photo courtesy of National Park Service/Tom Engberg) CHILLICOTHE, Ohio – To an ...

CHILLICOTHE – Some people have a passion for studying long lost cultures. Others enjoy the hobby of hiking great distances. For local resident Larry Powell, the combination of the two led him to a new ...

Newark’s Octagon and Great Circle Earthworks are on the brink of being nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage List by the United States Department of Interior. Let me review how we got here. World ...