Adena culture
Adena culture is the name for a prehistoric Indian culture based in the middle Ohio Valley. It can be traced back to about 1000 BC. To 200 AD.
The characteristic features of the Adena culture include specific ceramic work as well as the burial mounds known as mounds, jewelry and the beginnings of agriculture. The crops grown include sunflowers and pumpkins . The cultivation of maize can also be proven for the years at the end of the Adena period . However, most of the food was obtained through hunting . The Adena also practiced an ancestral cult .
Evidence of the Adena culture can be found in what is now the US states of Ohio , Indiana , Kentucky , West Virginia , Pennsylvania and New York .
The Adena culture is relatively fluent in the Hopewell culture , whose relationship is unclear.
literature
- Charles E. Snow , William S. Webb: The Adena People , 18 editions between 1945 and 2001.
