15 Facts About Hopewell tradition

Hopewell tradition describes the common aspects of an ancient pre-Columbian Native American civilization that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period.

The Hopewell tradition was not a single culture or society, but a widely dispersed set of populations connected by a common network of trade routes.

Or, Hopewell tradition was said to have originated in western Illinois and spread by diffusion.

Similarly, the Havana Hopewell tradition was thought to have spread up the Illinois River and into southwestern Michigan, spawning Goodall Hopewell.

Hopewell tradition inherited from their Adena forebears an incipient social stratification.

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Hopewell tradition societies cremated most of their deceased and reserved burial for only the most important people.

Hopewell tradition settlements were linked by extensive and complex trading routes; these operated as communication networks, and were a means to bring people together for important ceremonies.

Hopewell tradition created some of the finest craftwork and artwork of the Americas.

The Hopewell tradition produced artwork in a greater variety and with more exotic materials than their predecessors the Adena.

The Hopewell tradition artisans were expert carvers of pipestone, and many of the mortuary mounds are full of exquisitely carved statues and pipes.

Hopewell tradition artists created both abstract and realistic portrayals of the human form.

Archaeologist Dr Edward McMichael characterized them as an intrusive Hopewell-like trade culture or a vanguard of Hopewellian tradition that had probably peacefully absorbed the local Adena in the Kanawha River Valley.

Montane Hopewell tradition is a variant that is a considerable distance from Cole Culture and Peters Phase, or Hopewell tradition central Ohio.

Around 500 CE, the Hopewell tradition exchange ceased, mound building stopped, and art forms were no longer produced.

Analysis of Hopewell tradition remains indicate shared mtDNA mutations unique with lineages from China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia.