Author: Charles Clark WilloughbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnoarchaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Turner Group of Earthworks
Author: Charles Clark WilloughbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnoarchaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Turner Group of Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio
Author: Charles C. WilloughbyPublisher: Corinthian Press
ISBN: 9780527012144
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Turner Group of Earthworks Hamilton County, Ohio
Author: The Turner Group of Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio
Author: Charles Clark WilloughbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hamilton County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors
Author: Daniel Troy CasePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387773878
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding
Book Bulletin
Author: The European and the Indian
Author: James AxtellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199878498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship.
Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere
Author: A. Martin ByersPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806153776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Multiple Hopewellian monumental earthwork sites displaying timber features, mortuary deposits, and unique artifacts are found widely distributed across the North American Eastern Woodlands, from the lower Mississippi Valley north to the Great Lakes. These sites, dating from 200 b.c. to a.d. 500, almost define the Middle Woodland period of the Eastern Woodlands. Joseph Caldwell treated these sites as defining what he termed the “Hopewell Interaction Sphere,” which he conceptualized as mediating a set of interacting mortuary-funerary cults linking many different local ethnic communities. In this new book, A. Martin Byers refines Caldwell’s work, coining the term “Hopewell Ceremonial Sphere” to more precisely characterize this transregional sphere as manifesting multiple autonomous cult sodalities of local communities affiliated into escalating levels of autonomous cult sodality heterarchies. It is these cult sodality heterarchies, regionally and transregionally interacting—and not their autonomous communities to which the sodalities also belonged—that were responsible for the Hopewellian assemblage; and the heterarchies took themselves to be performing, not funerary, but world-renewal ritual ceremonialism mediated by the deceased of their many autonomous Middle Woodland communities. Paired with the cult sodality heterarchy model, Byers proposes and develops the complementary heterarchical community model. This model postulates a type of community that made the formation of the cult sodality heterarchy possible. But Byers insists it was the sodality heterarchies and not the complementary heterarchical communities that generated the Hopewellian ceremonial sphere. Detailed interpretations and explanations of Hopewellian sites and their contents in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Georgia empirically anchor his claims. A singular work of unprecedented scope, Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere will encourage archaeologists to re-examine their interpretations.
Pinson Mounds
Author: Robert C. Mainfort Jr.Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Pinson Mounds: Middle Woodland Ceremonialism in the Midsouth is a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of the largest Middle Woodland mound complex in the Southeast. Located in west Tennessee about ten miles south of Jackson, the Pinson Mounds complex includes at least thirteen mounds, a geometric earthen embankment, and contemporary short-term occupation areas within an area of about four hundred acres. A unique feature of Pinson Mounds is the presence of five large, rectangular platform mounds from eight to seventy-two feet in height. Around A.D. 100, Pinson Mounds was a pilgrimage center that drew visitors from well beyond the local population and accommodated many distinct cultural groups and people of varied social stations. Stylistically nonlocal ceramics have been found in virtually every excavated locality, all together representing a large portion of the Southeast. Along with an overview of this important and unique mound complex, Pinson Mounds also provides a reassessment of roughly contemporary centers in the greater Midsouth and Lower Mississippi Valley and challenges past interpretations of the Hopewell phenomenon in the region.
The Ohio Hopewell Episode
Author: A. Martin ByersPublisher: The University of Akron Press
ISBN: 9781931968003
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
"This religious, symbolic, social, and ecological interpretation of one of the most fascinating archaeological records of the prehistoric world of Native Americans cannot help but stimulate discussion and debate."--Jacket.