In New York, Ritchie (1965) identifies Hopewell in artifacts and mounds of Squawkie Hill phase; earlier, he had incorporated this phase in his Point Peninsula culture series. Griffin (1964) also notes Hopewellian content of New York finds. Furthermore, he mentions extension of dentate rocker stamping on pottery well beyond appearance of other Hopewell traits and also comments on blurring or fading of Hopewell complex after about A.D. 250.

{It was almost completely gone by 500 AD. This is an important time in world history. The Ostrogothic disappearance from Italy that led to major fortifications in South America as discovered by Gene Savoy after this time when Jennings wrote this book might also have led to end of Hopewell cultural control. We know Roman statues were found in Mexico with a 99% archaeological certainty according to University of Calgary Professor Emeritus David Kelley. But few scholars have drawn any connection even with huge forts in South America. Probably it is pure co-incidence. But when you know Visigoths are Merovingian related and people like Dagobert had a trepanned skull as well as other things we will lay before you later you might think it less a co-incidence. The influx of Keltic 'Red-Heads' from Taklamakand Desert near present Great Wall occurred at this time too, according to Prof. Covey of Wake Forest University, and Professor Joan Price of American Archaeological Institute.}

This is about time southern derivatives began to appear and cultures of Middle West and East developed stronger regional differences, with many local sequences replacing more uniform culture characteristic of Hopewell dominance. Even so, as in widespread dentate pottery decoration, vestiges of Hopewell ancestry can be noted. In New York, for example, development of late Point Peninsula into Owasco and even historic Iroquois can be tied through a few traits to Hopewell (Griffin 1964).

The Owasco culture of New York, accepted as being ancestral to Iroquois, is dated at A.D. 1000 to 1300.... Farming tools included elk-scapula hoes, as well as two types of flint hoe. Food-storage pits are common in some sites.

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