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Book An Historical and Archaeological Evaluation of the Hopeton Works  Ross County  Ohio

Download or read book An Historical and Archaeological Evaluation of the Hopeton Works Ross County Ohio written by David S. Brose and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio

Download or read book Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio written by Mark Lynott and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 2000 years ago, people living in the river valleys of southern Ohio built earthen monuments on a scale that is unmatched in the archaeological record for small-scale societies. The period from c. 200 BC to c. AD 500 (Early to Middle Woodland) witnessed the construction of mounds, earthen walls, ditches, borrow pits and other earthen and stone features covering dozen of hectares at many sites and hundreds of hectares at some. The development of the vast Hopewell Culture geometric earthwork complexes such as those at Mound City, Chilicothe; Hopewell; and the Newark earthworks was accompanied by the establishment of wide-ranging cultural contacts reflected in the movement of exotic and strikingly beautiful artefacts such as elaborate tobacco pipes, obsidian and chert arrowheads, copper axes and regalia, animal figurines and delicately carved sheets of mica. These phenomena, coupled with complex burial rituals, indicate the emergence of a political economy based on a powerful ideology of individual power and prestige, and the creation of a vast cultural landscape within which the monument complexes were central to a ritual cycle encompassing a substantial geographical area. The labour needed to build these vast cultural landscapes exceeds population estimates for the region, and suggests that people from near (and possibly far) travelled to the Scioto and other river valleys to help with construction of these monumental earthen complexes. Here, Mark Lynott draws on more than a decade of research and extensive new datasets to re-examine the spectacular and massive scale Ohio Hopewell landscapes and to explore the society that created them.

Book The Ohio Hopewell Episode

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  • Author : A. Martin Byers
  • Publisher : The University of Akron Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781931968003
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book The Ohio Hopewell Episode written by A. Martin Byers and published by The University of Akron Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Book Gathering Hopewell

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  • Author : Christopher Carr
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2005-11-22
  • ISBN : 9780306484797
  • Pages : 834 pages

Download or read book Gathering Hopewell written by Christopher Carr and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two thousand years ago, their elaborately embellished works of art made of glistening metals and stones from faraway places, and their highly formalized mortuaries. In this book, twenty-one researchers in interwoven efforts immerse themselves and the reader in this vibrant archaeological record in order to richly reconstruct the societies, rituals, and ritual interactions of Hopewellian peoples. By finding the faces, actions, and motivations of Hopewellian peoples as individuals who constructed knowable social roles, the authors explore, in a personalized and locally contextualized manner, the details of Hopewellian life: leadership, its sacred and secular power bases, recruitment, and formalization over time; systems of social ranking and prestige; animal-totemic clan organization, kinship structures, and sodalities; gender roles, prestige, work load, and health; community organization in its tri-scalar residential, symbolic, and demographic forms; intercommunity alliances and changes in their strategies and expanses over time; and interregional travels for power questing, pilgrimage, healing, tutelage, and acquiring ritual knowledge. This book is useful to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in the workings and development of social complexity at local and interregional scales, recent theoretical developments in the anthropology of the topics listed above, the prehistory of eastern North America, its history of intellectual development, and Native American ritual, symbolism, and belief.

Book Ohio Hopewell Community Organization

Download or read book Ohio Hopewell Community Organization written by William S. Dancey and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great earthen mounds of southern Ohio have attracted archaelogical attention since the first half of the nineteenth century. Until now, little has been known of the social organization of the Native Americans who constructed these spectacular ceremonial monuments. In the early 1960s, Olaf Prufer argued that the Ohio Hopewell societies who built the mounds that characterize the Middle Woodland Period (200 B.C. to A.D. 400) lived in a small, scattered hamlets. Prufer's thesis was evaluated at the symposium "Testing the Prufer Model of Ohio Hopewell Settlement Pattern" at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Pittsburgh, April 10, 1992. Several of those essays and others, including two by Professor Prufer, are included in Ohio Hopewell Community Organization. Within the last decade, more than 100 instances of Middle Woodland domestic sites have been documented. The authors examine plant and animal remains, ceramic and stone fragments, and traces of structures and facilities recovered through survey and excavation. The essays illustrate many of the controversies revolving around scientific study of the Hopewellian lifeway. In an Afterword, James B. Griffin shows that the problem of Hopewellian settlement pattern has deep intellectual roots, and its solution will be significant not only for the Ohio Valley but for world prehistory as well. While the volume holds obvious interest for professional archaeologists, it will also appeal to amateur archaeologists and visitors to prehistoric sites and museums.

Book Amidst Ancient Monuments

Download or read book Amidst Ancient Monuments written by Ron Cockrell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A View from the Core

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  • Author : Ohio Archaeological Council
  • Publisher : Ohio Archaeological
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book A View from the Core written by Ohio Archaeological Council and published by Ohio Archaeological. This book was released on 1996 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amidst Ancient Monuments

Download or read book Amidst Ancient Monuments written by Ron Cockrell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hopewell Culture National Historical Park includes several ancient earthworks in Ohio. Mound City Group, in south central Ohio near Chillicothe, which preserves a group of prehistoric (ca. 200 B.C. to A.D. 500) Hopewell burial mounds, is a sub-unit of this park. This administrative history preserves information necessary to the history of the park & provides a historic basis for park management decisions. The primary information base for this history are NPS libraries & files of Mound City Group/Hopewell Culture & the Midwest Reg. Office, Fed. Record Centers in Phila. & Kansas City, Ohio Historical Soc., Ross County Historical Soc., Chillicothe Gazette, as well as oral history interviews.

Book Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology  MCJA

Download or read book Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology MCJA written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology written by Robin Skeates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this Handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent. This Handbook provides an extensive set of specially commissioned chapters, each of which summarizes and critically reflects on progress made in this dynamic field during the early years of the twenty-first century. The authors identify and discuss the key current concepts and debates of sensory archaeology, providing overviews and commentaries on its methods and its place in interdisciplinary sensual culture studies. Through a set of thematic studies, they explore diverse sensorial practices, contexts and materials, and offer a selection of archaeological case-studies from different parts of the world. In the light of this, the research methods now being brought into the service of sensory archaeology are re-examined. Of interest to scholars, students and others with an interest in archaeology around the world, this book will be invaluable to archaeologists and is also of relevance to scholars working in disciplines contributing to sensory studies: aesthetics, anthropology, architecture, art history, communication studies, history (including history of science), geography, literary and cultural studies, material culture studies, museology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Book Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

Download or read book Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley written by Ephraim George Squier and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings

Download or read book The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Ohio Contract Archaeology  1946 1985

Download or read book A Bibliography of Ohio Contract Archaeology 1946 1985 written by Alan C. Tonetti and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ohio Archaeologist

Download or read book Ohio Archaeologist written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors

Download or read book The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors written by Daniel Troy Case and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding

Book Archaeology in Ross County  Ohio

Download or read book Archaeology in Ross County Ohio written by Mark F. Seeman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Archaeology of Hamilton County  Ohio

Download or read book The Archaeology of Hamilton County Ohio written by S. F. Starr and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough analysis of the archaeology of the Cincinnati area based on surveys completed in 1957 & 1958. It includes sections on the Adena circular earthworks, ceremonial earthworks, defensive fortifications, and stone mounds. It has information on mounds and village sites in the following townships: Anderson, Columbia, Symmes, Sycamore, Springfield Townships; Cincinnati; Delhi, Miami, Green, Colerain, Crosby, Harrison, and Whitewater. Although originally published in 1960, it remains today a valuable resource on the prehistoric archaeology of the Cincinnati area.