Adena culture

Adena culture appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Eastern Woodlands (North America) from c. 500 BCE to 100 CE, a span of 599 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Mound builders of the Ohio valley who buried their dead in log tombs beneath conical mounds, such as Grave Creek in West Virginia. They may have built the Great Serpent Mound.

See Adena culture on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 500 BCE to 100 CE

Duration

599 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Eastern Woodlands, North America

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Became

• Hopewell tradition c. 100 BCE to 500 CE

Events in North America during its time

• 100 Hopewell exchange network at its height

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America
• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE, Europe
• Parthian Empire 247 BCE to 224 CE, Middle East
• Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE, Europe
• Roman Empire 27 BCE to 395 CE, Europe
• Kushan Empire c. 30 to 375 CE, South Asia
• Xiongnu Empire c. 209 BCE to 93 CE, Central and North Asia

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