Kansas City Hopewell

[1] The sites are made up of distinctive pottery styles and impressive burial mounds containing stone vault tombs.

Hopewell trading networks were quite extensive, as has been found by the evidence of goods such as obsidian from the Yellowstone area, copper from Lake Superior, and shells from the Gulf Coast in locations distant from their origins.

The Kansas City Hopewell period is divided by archaeologists into three phases based on radiocarbon dates and changes in projectile point styles and ceramic decoration.

The Kansas City Hopewell peoples grew a variety of domesticated plants, including squash and marsh elder.

The people of this period started to live in small hamlets with two to three families and began to rely on more on agriculture.