Geology of National Parks

Hopewell Culture National Historic Park
And Other Prehistoric Native American Cultural Sites of the Ohio Valley Region:
Serpent Mount, Fort Ancient, Miamisburg Mound, and Shawnee Lookout

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Ohio is host to a remarkable number of prehistoric American Indian earthworks. Most sites are now on private lands, but many of the major earthworks are preserved in parks in southern Ohio. This website provides photographic information about five of these archaeological park locations.

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Hopewll Culture National Historic Park, view along Scioto River Serpent Mound - an effigy mound of a large snake eating an egg. Fort Ancient State Memorial Park Miamisburg Mound, the second largest indian mound in the United States. Shawnee Lookout is located on a hilltop overlooking the confluence of the Ohio and Great Miami rivers.
Hopewell Culture
National Historic Park		 Serpent Mound
State Memorial Park
 Fort Ancient
State Memorial Park		 Miamisburg Mound
State Memorial Park		 Shawnee Lookout
archaeological Park
Map of Hopewell Culture National Historic Park sites.
Hopewell Culture NHP consists of five site locations near Chilocothe, Ohio including Mound City Group, Hopeton Earthworks, Seip Earthworks, Hopewell Mound Group, Spruce Hill Earthworks & High Bank Works.
 Map of Serpent Mound, a great effigy mound located in a remnant of an ancient asteroid impact crater.
Serpent Mound is perhaps Ohio's most famous prehistoric earthworks because of its effigy is in the shape of a large serpent. It is located within an ancient cryptoexplosive geologic structure.		 Map of Fort Ancient located on a hilltop overlooking the Little Miami River Valley.
Fort Ancient State Memorial Park is a large earthworks located on a hilltop along the east side of the Little Miami River Valley.
 Map sowing the location of Miamisburg Mound along the banks of the Great Miami River.
Miamisburg Mound is the second largest earthen mound structure in the United States, located on a hilltop along the east side of the Great Miami River Valley.		 Map showing the location of Shawnee Lookout overlooking the confluence of the Ohio River and Great Miami River.
Shawnee Lookout Park overlooks the confluence of the Great Miami River and the Ohio River. This location preserves one of the longest histories of prehistoric human occupation in the United States.

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Map showing the location of selected ancestral American Indian heritage sites and parks in Ohio discussed on this website. Map showing the location of indian mounds and earthworks in Ohio
This is a historic map of Ohio indian mounds and earthworks known at that time (compiled in 1914).

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Timeline of Ohio Paleoindian Cultures of the Ohio region (20,000 years ago to present)
Timeline of Ohio Paleoindian cultures of the Ohio region (20,000 years ago to present), modified after sources including Lepper, Bradly T, 2005, Ohio Archaeology, An Illustrated Chronicle of Ohio's Ancient American Indian Culture.
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Last modified: 5/11/2019