Pathway to Ancestors

Pathway to Ancestors. . , Earthen Avenues Connect the Earthworks to One Another and to the Surrounding Streams , This earthen wall is part of a set of converging walls that once channeled the movement of people from the Great Circle into an avenue enclosed by parallel walls. This avenue led to a large square earthwork, located to the northeast. The Wright Earthworks preserves a small remnant of this square., Beyond the square, another set of parallel walls led to a large oval earthwork in which there were a number of large and small burial mounds. All of these mounds were destroyed before they could be studied by archaeologists, but it is clear that they held many amazing artifacts similar to those found at other Hopewell culture mounds., The Shaman of Newark , The only artifact that you can see today that is known with certainty to have come from these mounds is a small stone sculpture of a person, possibly a shaman, wearing bear regalia. Is this a representation of a prominent person, a hero from a traditional story, or a spiritual being?