Cole culture

Map of the Highbanks Park Earthworks built by Cole culture people

The Cole Culture (800-1300 CE) is a Late Woodland Period culture of Native American people from central Ohio.

Cole Culture people made flint tools and pottery.^[1] They were agrarian and cultivated beans, maize, squash, and tobacco. Cole people buried their dead in subterranean graves instead of mounds.^[2] They shared many traits with the Hopewell tradition and might be descended from them.^[3] A major Cole Culture site is the Ufferman Site in Delaware County, Ohio.^[1] Another is the Highbank Park Works, also in Delaware County, built between 800 and 1300 CE.

See also

• Carl Potter Mound
• Fort Ancient culture
• Monongahela culture

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Owen 328
2. ^ Wendel, Bill. "Pre History." Local History of Ohio, Mercer County, and Surrounding Areas. (retrieved 12 April 2011)
3. ^ Owen 326

Reference

• Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Somerset Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0-403-09982-6.