The Cole Culture is a Late Woodland Period culture of Native American people

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 from central Ohio

Ohio

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Cole Culture people made flint tools and pottery. They were agrarian and cultivated beans, maize, squash, and tobacco. Cole people buried their dead in subterranean graves instead of mounds. They shared many traits with the Hopewell tradition and might be descended from them. A major Cole Culture site is the Ufferman Site

Ufferman Site

The Ufferman Site is an archaeological site in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located north of the city of Delaware, it occupies approximately of land near Delaware Lake on property near to the boundaries of Delaware State Park...

 in Delaware County, Ohio

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. Another is the Highbank Park Works

Highbank Park Works

The Highbank Park Works is a complex of earthworks and a potential archaeological site located within Highbanks Metro Park in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio. The park is in southernmost Delaware County on the east bank of the Olentangy River...

, also in Delaware County, built between 800 and 1300 CE.

Reference

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