Adena and Hopewell Cultures Vocabulary PreTest

A large effigy mound in the shape of a serpent made by a mound-building culture.

• Mound

• Burial Mound

• Great Serpent Mound

• Three Sisters

A ceremony, often religious.

• small pox

• Adena

• Burial site

• rituals

An American Indian culture that developed in Ohio around the year 800 B.C.

• Paleoindians

• Adena

• Hopewell

• Archaic

Pits dug into the ground that trap heat and cook food.

• toaster oven

• fire ring

• earth ovens

• effigy mounds

An American Indian culture that developed in Ohio around the year 200 B.C.

• Paleoindians

• Hopewell

• American

• Archaic

Large structures built with soil into large shapes.

• pyramids

• mountains

• dirt pile

• mound

Mounds that house the bodies of important Adena or Hopewell people.

• Effigy Mounds

• Hopewell Mounds

• Burial Mounds

• Paleoindian Mounds

Two sets of long, unbroken mounds that made a road from Newark to Chillicothe, Ohio.

• Serpent Road

• Effigy Road

• Adena Road

• Great Hopewell Road

Mounds without any bodies buried inside and built in special patterns or shapes.

• Effigy Mounds

• Hopewell Mounds

• Three sisters mound

• Paleoindian mounds

Three crops – maize, beans, and squash – that were grown close together and supported each other with nutrients.

• Five sisters

• Three bother

• Three sisters

• Three Aunts