WHEREAS, The Fort Ancient Earthworks in Warren County, the | 9 |
Newark Earthworks in Licking County, and the Hopewell Culture | 10 |
National Historical Park in Ross County are all outstanding | 11 |
examples of the ceremonial earthworks that were built 2,000 years | 12 |
ago by the indigenous Eastern Woodland people now known as the | 13 |
Hopewell culture. The earthworks are internationally significant | 14 |
and nationally recognized archaeological sites in Ohio and | 15 |
represent the greatest achievements of this extraordinary | 16 |
civilization whose cultural center was located in the area that is | 17 |
today known as Ohio; and | 18 |
WHEREAS, The National Park Service in the U.S. Department of | 23 |
the Interior periodically selects sites from its Tentative List, | 24 |
which was compiled and submitted by the United States in 2008 to | 25 |
the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, | 26 |
Scientific, and Cultural Committee, for nomination to the World | 27 |
Heritage List. The World Heritage List identifies the world's most | 28 |
important cultural and natural heritage sites; and | 29 |
WHEREAS, Currently, the Fort Ancient Earthworks, the Newark | 30 |
Earthworks, and the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, | 31 |
together known as the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, are on the | 32 |
Tentative List. The Ohio Historical Society and the Hopewell | 33 |
Culture National Historical Park and their partners on the Ohio | 34 |
World Heritage Committee have made significant progress in | 35 |
preparing supporting documentation for the nomination of the | 36 |
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks to the World Heritage List; now | 37 |
therefore be it | 38 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the Senate of the 130th | 39 |
General Assembly of the State of Ohio, urge the National Park | 40 |
Service in the U.S. Department of the Interior to submit, at the | 41 |
earliest possible time, the nomination of the Hopewell Ceremonial | 42 |
Earthworks, including the Fort Ancient Earthworks, the Newark | 43 |
Earthworks, and the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, to | 44 |
the World Heritage Committee for inscription on the World Heritage | 45 |
List; and be it further | 46 |