Adena Tribes
By:
Adam Newell
Mathew Sesevich
Paul Mossing
History
There has been little recovered evidence of what daily life
was like in the Adena Culture, but there has been extensive
speculation.
Has a emperor
For entertainment the children played games like smoke
tag and skip rocks across lakes.
They were the first people in this region to settle down in
small villages, cultivate crops, use pottery vessels, acquire
exotic raw materials, such as copper and marine shell, to
make ornaments and jewelry, and bury their honored dead
in conical burial mounds.
Lived
• Existed to 1000 to 200 B.C.
• Period- Woodland Period.
• Lived in present day Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Houses, and Resources
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The Adena grew a variety of plants in their gardens, including squash,
sunflower, sump weed, goosefoot, knotweed, and may grass.
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The Adena lived in small villages near their gardens.
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The Adena usually lived in villages containing circular houses with conical
roofs, constructed of poles, willows, and bark, though some of them lived in
rock shelters.
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Mounds
• The building of the mounds began around 500 BC
• Mounds were small and had no special design or
shape
• They later increased in size and became more
artistically designed
• Only a few were chosen to be buried in a mound.
• The Adena Culture appears to be the first ancient
people in Ohio to create burial mounds for their
honored dead.
Who they were
• The Adena Culture was name given to the
people who built the first burial mounds in
Ohio.
• The Adena Culture were both hunters and
gatherers, but they were also Ohio's first
farmers.
Food
• Hunted deer, elk, black bear, woodchuck,
beaver, porcupine, turkey, trumpeter swan,
ruffed grouse
• Gathered several edible seed grasses and nuts
• Cultivated pumpkin, squash, and sunflower
Clothes, and Looks
• Wore rags and animal skin.
• The Adena folk were unusually tall and
powerfully built
• Women over six feet tall and men approaching
heights of seven feet have been discovered.
What we know
• Most of what we know about this culture comes
from examining what was buried with the dead.
• One of the earliest and most important sites of
the Adena culture was located in the Scioto River
Valley near Chillicothe.
• The mounds were used for religious purposes is
not clear, however, some uses are known.
• Some of the mounds were used as a burial place
for important people in their society.
Adena pipe
• The Adena Pipe is the most famous pipe made by
the Adena Indians.
• It was found with a burial beneath the original
Adena Mound in Ross County, Ohio.
• There was an entire human figure carved around
the smoking tube.
• The individual portrayed probably was not a
physically normal-sized person, but a dwarf.
• This person had a muscular body, short arms and
legs and a big head.
CITATIONS
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adena_culture
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http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1287
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http://www.touring-ohio.com/history/adena-culture.html
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http://www.answers.com/topic/adena-culture