- The Adena people were primarily sedentary and lived in semipermanent villages.
- They would have walked, paddled canoes or traveled by horseback for shorter hunting trips.
- To travel longer distances they most often traveled by canoes.
- The rivers were the main trading routes.
- They built and used mounds for ceremonial purposes and not as burial mounds.
- The Adena also constructed ceremonial centers which suggests that they were religious peoples.