This is a list of Hopewell sites. The Hopewell tradition (also incorrectly called the "Hopewell culture") refers to the common aspects of the
Native American culture that flourished along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern
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from 200 BCE to 500 CE. The Hopewell tradition was not a single
culture
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or society, but a widely dispersed set of related populations that were connected by a common network of trade routes,
known as the Hopewell Exchange System.
See also
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Hopewell tradition
The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from ...
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