This is a video about the Hopewell Culture Pre-Columbian ruins in Chillicothe, Ohio including what they are, maps and directions to reach them from the John Glenn International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, a slide show of the Mound City site ruins in Chillicothe, a comparison to the Cahokia ruins near St. Louis, and some discussion of what we can actually know about these two-thousand year old ruins.
(C) 2019 by John F. McGowan, Ph.D.
About Me
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
