Copper Plate
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Title |
Copper Plate |
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Subject |
Hopewell culture
Indian copperwork
Mound-builders
Woodland culture |
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Time Period |
Middle Woodland |
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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. |
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Collection |
Archaeology Collections, Ledger #2 |
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Source |
WH04 Box CF0019; A 4346/023989.009 |
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Submitting Institution |
Ohio History Connection |
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Rights |
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
A4346_023989_009.tif |
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Image Height |
2448 |
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Image Width |
3264 |
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File Size |
23983592 Bytes |
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Format |
picture; artifacts |
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Extent |
20.2 mm high, 24.6 mm wide, 58.7 mm long, 1 mm deep, 53 g weight. |
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