la beads. From previous accounts it is known that copper headpieces, and marginella beads were of high value, and imports require wealthElite Grave Goods:This graph shows prevalence of gravegoods located in stage. The goods are as follows: Copper, Shell, Marginella Beads, Snake Skeleton, Ochre, Micha, Crafted Goods, and other. Since The objective is to look for correlates to elites, goods that are characteristic of high status should be recognized. In one form copper is an abundant gravegood. Since copper bracelets are so prevalent that it can be inferred that the people buried in this mound were not commoners, but in fact elites. Marginella beads are also a high status good. They are not prevalent, but they are present in stage one and three. Also a copper headdress and conch shell are found in stage 3. What else supports this hypothesis?Labor is another factor that shows evidence of an elite class within a society. The existence of the mound itself shows extensive work being done for the recognition of the dead. The time spent on creating such a tomb can be calculated. Researchers have used experimental archeology to conclude that it takes 10 minutes of labor to produce one cubic foot of pit volume, and 90 minutes to produce one log. Labor Vs stageThe data used in the graph Labor Vs Stage is all averaged. It shows an average number of hours worked per stage. There are obvious outliers within the data, but for the purposes of pattern searching, these outliers are of no concern to this set of data. The graph shows a steady increase in hrs spent on tomb production from stage one to three, then there is a steep decline into the fourth. This shows that perhaps stage three was the peak of some sort of elite people. It could be a burial place for the leaders, or it could be a lineage. To find this gender in the mound must be explored.Leaders in the time of the Adena were only men. Men ruled the countryside. They were big men, chiefs, breadwi...
