The Adena culture built Ohio’s first mounds, including Shrum Mound in Columbus. Archaeologists used to believe the Adena were the first farmers and pottery makers in the region, but we now know ...

Radiocarbon dates on charcoal from the features established that the basin was used by the Adena culture between about 500 and 400 B.C., whereas the buried ground surface was used by the Fort ...

Shrum Mound in Columbus is 20 feet high and 100 feet in diameter, constructed by people of the Adena culture (800 B.C. to A.D. 100. (Photo: Ohio History Connection) ...

But the most recent evidence again supports the Adena culture as the first builders. Serpent Mound was built on a site where ...

The State of Ohio's official artifact is the Adena Pipe, which was found in a mound near the Adena Mansion in Chillicothe. The land was once owned by Ohio's sixth governor, Thomas Worthington.

Castle archaeologist Wes Clarke discusses the Conus mound in Marietta’s Mound Cemetery. It’s associated with the Adena culture, which was active in the Mid-Ohio Valley around 800 B.C. to A.D. 100.

Cannon began researching the Adena culture, which pre-dated the known Native Americans in Ohio. Archeologists named them for the town of Adena, near Coshocton, where the first burial mounds were ...

The information notes that the Adena culture “is not the name of any American Indian tribe” and historians don’t know what they called themselves.

How do we talk about the earthworks? Our terminology can be confusing. Take the term “Hopewell Culture.” There never were Indians who called themselves “Hopewell.” While there is no doubt ...

The culture that archaeologists call Adena thrived for more than 1,000 years, from about 1000 B.C. to 100 A.D. The Adena people built thousands of earthen mounds in which they buried their dead.

The Adena culture flourished during the Early Woodland Period and is noted for agriculture, pottery, trade activity along waterways, and earthworks. In the 17th century, the Pottawatamie lived in ...