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 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 ...

It was sculpted around A.D. 40 by an American Indian artisan belonging to the Adena culture. William C. Mills, the Ohio History Connection archaeologist who excavated the Adena Mound in 1901, ...

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.

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 ...

This 1,330-foot-long prehistoric effigy mound is a relic of the Native American Adena culture, which flourished between 800 B.C. and 100 A.D. Even after extensive study, ...

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.

When I visited Shrum Mound, I could obviously see it, but I couldn’t feel the depth of its meaning in my own bones the way I could in St. Paul’s Cathedral. I needed a better translation of Adena ...

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.