Adena Culture

Overview

The Adena culture was a pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 500 BC to 100 AD, in a time known as the Early Woodland period. The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system. The Adena culture was centered on the location of the modern state of Ohio, but also extended into contiguous areas of Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Southern Wisconsin and parts of extreme western Pennsylvania.

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Borders & accuracy

An archaeological culture; extent is defined by where its material remains have been found rather than by political control.

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases (consistent with historical-basemaps:-500:Adena Culture)
• SNAPSHOT500 BCE
• MATCHEDAdena heartland — Ohio Valley
• POLITY TYPEculture

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• Three Kingdoms Wars184–280 CE
  World-changing · 36M dead
• Warring States Period (China)475–221 BCE
  World-changing · 1.0M dead
• Qin Unification Wars230–221 BCE
  World-changing · 1.0M dead
• Gallic Wars58–50 BCE
  World-changing · 1.0M dead
• Qin Unification of China221–206 BCE
  World-changing · 500K dead
• Second Punic War218–201 BCE
  World-changing · 500K dead