Comparing the mounds of the Chillicothe Northwest Group with mounds at the Hopewell Site, and the Adena Mound burials with a similar size group of burials within a section of a Big House at the base of Mound 25, yields a frame work for comparing “Hopewell” and “Adena” contexts in the Central Scioto. Here I assume Hopewell to be a descendent of Adena, though not necessarily in a single straight line. Details have been given elsewhere (Greber 1991, 2005). Some aspects of this framework provide suggestions for interpreting Adena and Hopewell in a wider sense; in particular, for considering sites in the Hocking Valley where typical “Hopewell” remains have not been found, but sites are dated to the Middle Woodland time period (e.g. Skinner and Norris 1981, Abrams and Freter 2005). Wide spread symbolic use of copper suggests that it is reasonable to use the range of copper objects found in a limited geographic area as a comparative framework outside the Central Scioto.