The State of Ohio

Fort Ancient peoples lived in the middle Ohio River Valley from A.D. 1000 to 1750. They lived in permanent villages, grew crops, hunted, fished, made salt, and traded goods, like marine shell, with other villages throughout the region. Fort Ancient people preceded the Shawnee and other historically documented tribes.

A.D. 1000 to 1650 The Fort Ancient people continued to build small burial mounds, but gradually shifted to burials in a cemetery area with no mounds. There is evidence that the Fort Ancient culture built Serpent Mound in Adams County, Ohio.

The Fort Ancient culture lived in southern Ohio and parts of Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia between A.D. 1000 and 1650. These American Indian groups lived in large villages, grew maize in their gardens, and made distinctive pottery and arrowheads.

: of or belonging to a late prehistoric aspect of the upper Mississippi culture centered in southern Ohio and Indiana and extending into Kentucky and West Virginia.

Fort Ancient is open for visitation! The museum and grounds are open Wednesday to Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM and Sunday from noon to 5 PM.

Clovis artifacts dated to 13,000 years ago were found at the Paleo Crossing Site in Medina County provides evidence of Paleo-Indians in northern Ohio and may be the area’s oldest residents and archaeologist Dr.

Snakes, which were seen to have supernatural powers, were often incorporated into spiritual rituals. The astrological alignment of the serpent—the head aligns with the summer solstice sunset and the tail with the winter solstice sunrise—suggests that it was used to mark the seasons.

Adena culture

Why Was Serpent Mound Built? Because of the astronomical alignments at Serpent Mound, most experts believe it was constructed to record special calendar days and important lunar and solar days. The mound is not a burial mound, although there are some ancient graves in the area.

An alignment with the Pole Star may indicate that the mound was used to determine true north and thus served as a kind of compass. Of note also is the fact that Halley’s Comet appeared in 1066, although the tail of the comet is characteristically straight rather than curved.

Serpent Mounds Park is a former historical and recreational park located in Keene, Ontario, Canada….Serpent Mounds Park.

Adams County

2 There Are Three Burial Mounds Nearby There were two created by the Adena culture, and one was later added by the Fort Ancient culture according to carbon dating performed by scientists.

Two Thousand Years Old

around 1350

The last few episodes of Season 8 of The Curse of Oak Island (COOI) have focused on the possibility that there is a serpent mount on Lot 15, and that the team found an ancient Chinese coin on the Island. There is a well-known serpent mound in Ontario, Canada, which is approximately 2000 years old.

70 Indian mounds

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