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Warren K. Moorehead's Hopewell Archaeological Collection.
The Field Museum's Hopewell Collection comes primarily from the 1891 and 1892 excavations by Warren K. Moorehead at the Hopewell Site, as well as others, in Ohio. The Hopewell material collected by Moorehead encompasses roughly 800 catalogue numbers, and the scope and content of the collection is impressive. The collection includes more than 7,000 chipped stone disks from a single mound at the site,  a find made all the more impressive by the fact that the disks are made of Wyandotte chert from Southern Indiana and had to be transported over great distances by traders either on foot or by canoe. Other stone tools were made out of hundreds of pounds of obsidian, or volcanic glass, which was brought to Ohio from the Obsidian Cliffs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Thousands of sheets of mica from Tennessee and North Carolina were found at the site.  There are also many pearl beads, bear claws and teeth, copper ear spools, carved stone effigy figures, and mica and copper sheet ornaments in the collection, all bearing mute testimony to the extensive trade networks that characterized Hopewell existence some 2000 years ago.back to Highlights |
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