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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

Greg Lattanzi with the New Jersey State Museum says he believes the girl's object was made in the Adena culture between 1,000 B.C. and 100 B.C.

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.

In 1953, an early Adena culture earthwork was excavated by archaeologists from the Ohio Historical Society before being demolished by the Dominion Land Co. to make way for a housing development.