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[unclemac]

Study of pipestone artifacts overturns a century-old assumption | News Bureau | University of Illinois

interesting read....

 

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[justonemore]

Thanks

 

[IlliniGuy]

Thanks for that. I learned something there!

 

[unclemac]

yeah, i need to look into these Hopewell people for sure.

 

[Gold Maven]

interesting. They wonder how those raw materials, or perhaps finished pieces, made it to Ohio. They were simply traded from one group to the next.

Just like the diseases that they had no immunity for spread across the country.

I'm sure every group knew the others around them and traded.

I remember reading an account of a burial mound dug in the late 1800's in Ohio, and they found some brass rings with Chinese figures on them. Now THAT makes me wonder how those got there.

 

[unclemac]

interesting. They wonder how those raw materials, or perhaps finished pieces, made it to Ohio. They were simply traded from one group to the next.

Just like the diseases that they had no immunity for spread across the country.

I'm sure every group knew the others around them and traded.

I remember reading an account of a burial mound dug in the late 1800's in Ohio, and they found some brass rings with Chinese figures on them. Now THAT makes me wonder how those got there.

I have read that those sorts of artifacts have shown up at early Arctic sites (Thule and Dorset), the thought being that these people lived on both sides of the Bering Sea and so had trade contact with Asian peoples. So by extrapolation....I suppose these things were traded to the south from the north...