This volume is the product of a conference on Ohio Hopewell archaeology held in November 1993. Nineteen of the twenty-three conference papers are included, as are four additional papers. The conference was the second in the past two decades devoted to Hopewell archaeology. The first was held in 1978 (Hopewell Archaeology, D. Brose and N. Greber, Kent State University Press, 1979). Although separated in time, the two volumes are more complementary than sequential; the first was geographically quite diverse while this second, as its title signifies, focuses almost exclusively on the Ohio Hopewell "core." The chapters in the volume cover a diversity of topics from settlement patterns to symbolism, generally quite briefly. Several chapters are essentially short site reports: Jennison-Guard (Jack Blosser), Twin Mounds West (Rebecca Hawkins), Newark (Bradley Lepper), hilltop enclosures (Robert Riordan), Fort Ancient (Robert Connolly), Capitoleum Mound (William Pickard), the Purdom Mound Group (J.M. Heilman and Lynn Mahoney), and Mt. Vernon, Indiana (Curtis Tomak and Frank Burkett). Others provide regional data, as in the case of Pinson and other sites in the midsouth (Robert Mainfort) and sites in the central Muskingum valley (Paul Pacheco, Jeff Carskadden, and James Morton). Most provide useful histories of prior research as well details of recent work at these sites. A primary contribution of the volume is to make recently collected data on Hopewell sites available to a wider audience.