Adena

Adena is the name given to a tradition of ancient communities in the Ohio valley and neighboring Kentucky. Long before the beginning of this era, their builders raised burial mounds and shaped earth into circular and geometric enclosures. In Kentucky's Bluegrass country these works marked places of ceremony and burial, created by people who also cultivated plants, hunted and gathered in the surrounding woods. The mounds remained prominent features of the landscape after the communities that built them had changed and moved.