User:Blervis/sandbox

Coordinates: 37°54′48″N 87°56′23″W / 37.91333°N 87.93972°W / 37.91333; -87.93972
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Mount Vernon Site
The site in 2011
Blervis/sandbox is located in Indiana
Blervis/sandbox
LocationPosey County, Indiana
Coordinates37°54′48″N 87°56′23″W / 37.91333°N 87.93972°W / 37.91333; -87.93972
Built~100 AD
NRHP reference No.95001542
Added to NRHP11 January 1996

The Mount Vernon Site, also known as the GE Mound, is a Hopewell site near Mount Vernon in southwest Indiana. The site was discovered in 1988 during road construction at a General Electric plastic manufacturing facility. The mound was partially leveled, used for road fill, and subject to widespread looting shortly after its discovery, resulting in a contentious and precedent-setting prosecution under the Archeological Resources Protection Act.[1] It was one of the five largest recorded Hopewell mounds before its destruction.[2] The depth and breadth of artifacts recovered from the site are among the most impressive of all Hopewell sites and even in its degraded condition the site is one of the most significant Hopewell mounds yet discovered.[3]

Characteristics[edit]

Part of the Crab Orchard Culture, the mound was 125 m (410 ft) long, 50 m (160 ft) wide, and 6 m (20 ft) tall.

Discovery and Looting[edit]

Multiple parties including the landowner, General Electric; Federal Government; State Government; and Native American tribes objected to the treatment of the site.

See Also[edit]

Mann Site - Large nearby mound complex


Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Mounds at Mound City - one of eight earthworks included in the site
Criteria(i)(iii)
Reference1689
Inscription2023 (45th Session)

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks is a World Heritage Site in the United States preserving eight monumental earthworks constructed by the Hopewell Culture. The sites were constructed between approximately 0 and 400 AD along tributaries of the Ohio River in the present-day state of Ohio.

World Heritage Listing[edit]

The monument consists of eight Hopewell sites throughout southern Ohio.[4]

Picture ID Name Location Description Coordinates Property Area [Buffer Zone]
1689-001 Octagon Earthworks Newark, Ohio 40°3′13.17″N 82°26′45.82″W / 40.0536583°N 82.4460611°W / 40.0536583; -82.4460611
1689-002 Great Circle Earthworks Newark, Ohio 40°2′28.44″N 82°25′48.43″W / 40.0412333°N 82.4301194°W / 40.0412333; -82.4301194
1689-003 Hopeton Earthworks Chillicothe, Ohio 39°23′5.25″N 82°58′44.96″W / 39.3847917°N 82.9791556°W / 39.3847917; -82.9791556
1689-004 Mound City Chillicothe, Ohio 39°22′35.36″N 83°0′14.36″W / 39.3764889°N 83.0039889°W / 39.3764889; -83.0039889
1689-005 High Bank Works Chillicothe, Ohio 39°17′54.82″N 82°55′6.56″W / 39.2985611°N 82.9184889°W / 39.2985611; -82.9184889
1689-006 Hopewell Mound Group Chillicothe, Ohio 39°21′39.54″N 83°5′36.14″W / 39.3609833°N 83.0933722°W / 39.3609833; -83.0933722
1689-007 Seip Earthworks Bainbridge, Ohio 39°14′14.89″N 83°13′11.37″W / 39.2374694°N 83.2198250°W / 39.2374694; -83.2198250
1689-008 Fort Ancient Oregonia, Ohio 39°24′12.1″N 84°5′33.18″W / 39.403361°N 84.0925500°W / 39.403361; -84.0925500
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  1. ^ Munson, Cheryl Ann; Jones, Marjorie Melvin; Fry, Robert E. (January 1995). "The GE Mound: An ARPA Case Study" (PDF). American Antiquity. 60 (1): 131–159 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ Lynott, Mark (2014). Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio. Oxbow Books. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-78297-754-4.
  3. ^ Tomak, Curtis H. (Fall 1994). "THE MOUNT VERNON SITE: A REMARKABLE HOPEWELL MOUND IN POSEY COUNTY, INDIANA". Archaeology of Eastern North America. 22: 1–46 – via JSTOR.
  4. ^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
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