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Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Curriculum Materials
Curriculum guide now available.

Educate your students about Ohio prehistory with help from Hopewell Culture NHP's curriculum guide. The guide contains an overview of 14,000 years of human occupation in the region and provides dozens of educational activities. Expeditions into Ohio's Past, written by Park Rangers Susan Knisley and Megan Stevens, printed in 2005 and updated in 2008, is available electronically as an Adobe Acrobat file by clicking here. For more information please contact the park by phone at 740-774-1126 or by e-mail.

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Obsidian point from the Mound City Group.

Did You Know?
Obsidian has been found at a few Hopewell earthwork sites. The majority of obsidian, several hundred pounds, was found in one mound at Hopewell Mound Group. Some of the obsidian was from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming- over 1,500 miles away.

Last Updated: August 22, 2011 at 14:02 MST