Worthington's Ancient History

I have a hard time with ancient history.  I love history but for me unless I can see the art, architecture and fashion,  I have a hard time getting into it.  I knew the mound was there for years,  I only saw it on real esate tours.  It is in a residential area...

I don't believe I have ever gotten out of the car to look at the historical marker before yesterday (blogging exercise...??)  I never knew the "Approach With Respect" stones were there.   I wonder if they have been there a long time.  An agent in my office commenting in January that her kids would love to sled there made me think about blogging about it.  Another agent warned her the "ghosts" would get them.

Adena and Hopewell history all runs together for me.  When I've gone to the Ohio Historical Center I have read about it...

Lenn I was never interested in dinosaurs...  I thought they existed along with Fred Flinstone.

My mother was taking college archeology and anthropology classes when I was a kid and I enjoyed looking at the anthropology text books. Archeology interested me much, much less.   She said she wanted to be an archaeologist when she was a kid... and I would think of archeology as dry, dusty, boring work...  I am glad there are people interested in it.  I enjoyed a couple of the Indiana Jones movies... 

There is a huge earthwork in the Dayton area that I never, ever visited although I probably lived within 5 miles of a big mound. There is a mound in a park where we hike pretty often...  we hiked to it once or twice.  It's a bump with a marker to me.   There is another big earthwork east of us in Newark and one south in Chillicothe south of us.  The spring equinox is the only time I get interested...

We went to the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula about five years ago which I am not going to attempt to spell and it interested me more than I expected but the pyramid is a structure... I can see it.

Zane - there are others in Chillicothe, Miamisburg, Newark.  I am not originally from Ohio... and I sometimes wonder if I learned much about American Indians in school.  Maybe I just did not pay attention. 

I think Ohio and Illinois have the Hopewell earthworks.

Later Ohio Indian history... the Tecumseh and Blue Jacket era (s)  is easier for me to understand kind of.

Hopewell is just the name of a farmer whose land one of the mounds was on... I get the Adena and Hopewell Indians totally confused personally.   Ceremonial?  Burial?  They moved all over from the northern Great Lakes to the gulf coast according to what's been found in the mounds from what I have read.    I think it  is too long ago and they were cultures that did not leave written records.  I don't think anyone is ever going to be able to say with any certainty what the mounds were 100%.

Thanks Carol.  I don't think I am probably up to speed since I did not go to school in Ohio but I love history.