Adena culture

Adena culture is the name given to a resident of the Mid Ohio Valley prehistoric Indian culture. They can be detected up to 200 AD, for the period from about 1000 BC.

The characteristic features of the Adena culture include specific ceramics and designated as Mounds grave mound, jewelry and beginnings of agriculture. Among the cultivated plants include sunflowers and pumpkins. For the years at the end of the Adena period can also be the cultivation of maize prove. The main part of the food, however, was acquired by hunting. The Adena also practiced a cult of ancestors.

Evidence of the Adena culture can be demonstrated in the present U.S. states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York.

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