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The preceding story is based on information archaeologists uncoveredat a Bath County mound and what anthropologists know aboutmoundbuilding peoples worldwide. We do not know how closely itdescribes what took place at the mound, just as we do not know the namethose prehistoric moundbuilders called themselves. Today, archaeologistscall them Adena (Uh-DEE-nuh), after an estate of the same name insouth-central Ohio where researchers first excavated an Adena mound.These mobile hunting-gathering-gardening peoples lived in the middleOhio River valley between 2500 and 1800 years ago. Over this longperiod, they built thousands of burial mounds and scores of geometricearthworks. Their mounds were the focus of their social, economic, andreligious lives, and the physical expression of their beliefs about theworld and their place in it.A.D. 2000A.D. 1000Euro-americansMississippianWoodland1000 B.C.Archaic8000 B.C.Paleoindian12000 B.C.The Adena Culture flourished during the Middle Woodland period.The mound in the background once stood in Bath County.
However, Adena people kept no written records. Their stories havebeen lost to time, so we must learn about them indirectly.Much of what we know comes from the work of archaeologists. Theseresearchers are piecing together a picture of Adena culture by studyingthe places they once lived, the mounds they built, and the patterns ofobjects they left behind. This booklet presents our current ideas aboutwhat their day-to-day lives and burial practices were like around 2000years ago. It is based on research carried out at eastern KentuckyAdena campsites, and at Adena mounds and earthworks in Kentucky’sBluegrass region.Adena moundInner BluegrassOuter BluegrassAdena mounds and earthworks are scattered acrosscentral Kentucky’s Bluegrass region.5
Page 5: Over time, these people will return
Page 9 and 10: As people debated the Moundbuilders
Page 11 and 12: archaeologists supervised the excav
Page 13 and 14: DAILY LIFEAdena lifeways were firml
Page 15 and 16: Adena peoples were mobile hunter-ga
Page 17 and 18: Preparing a garden space took sever
Page 19 and 20: Focus On Adena GardeningAdena peopl
Page 21 and 22: Focus On Adena FabricsThere is no q
Page 23 and 24: Health and DiseaseAlthough Depressi
Page 25 and 26: a cone-shaped MontgomeryCounty moun
Page 27 and 28: Based on the materials found inside
Page 29 and 30: does not accurately reflect the num
Page 31 and 32: extend nearly 8 feet below thegroun
Page 33 and 34: Adena groups probablyworked-out mor
Page 35 and 36: What we do know of Adena burial pra
Page 37 and 38: separate, or mixed with the remains
Page 39 and 40: a necklace of disk-shaped shell bea
Page 41 and 42: The keys to that discovery are vari
Page 43 and 44: Focus On Adena Engraved TabletsAden
Page 45 and 46: Focus On An Adena ShamanIn 1950, be
Page 47 and 48: county, or state law enforcement of
Page 49 and 50: The KENTUCKY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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