The Kansas City Hopewell were the farthest west regional variation of the Hopewell tradition of the Middle Woodland period (100 BCE – 700 CE). Sites were located in Kansas and Missouri around the mouth of the Kansas River where it enters the Missouri River. There are 30 recorded Kansas City Hopewell sites.[1]
The sites are made up of distinctive pottery styles and impressive burial mounds containing stone vault tombs. It is however uncertain whether this culture developed locally when people adopted Hopewell traits, or if westward migrating Hopewell people brought it all with them.[2]
- ^ "Kansas City Hopewell". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
- ^ Archaeology of Native North America, 2010, Dean R. Snow, Prentice-Hall, New York. pp.264