Title	Copper Plate
Subject	Hopewell culture Indian copperwork Mound-builders Woodland culture
Time Period	Middle Woodland
Description	This thin sheet of copper, roughly rectangular in shape, is folded and bent into a tight mass with jagged edges. It is light reddish brown, dark reddish gray, very pale green, and light green in color. This piece is from the Hopewell Culture. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large - the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior.
Collection	Archaeology Collections, Ledger #2
Source	WH04 Box CF0019; A 4346/023989.009
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/collections--archives/digital-collections--services/rights--reproduction
Type	StillImage
File Name	A4346_023989_009.tif
Image Height	2448
Image Width	3264
File Size	23983592 Bytes
Format	picture; artifacts
Extent	20.2 mm high, 24.6 mm wide, 58.7 mm long, 1 mm deep, 53 g weight.

Copper Plate

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