Hopewell Settlement Patterns, Subsistence, and Symbolic Landscapes [electronic resource] /
Society for American Archaeology.Meeting(69th :2004 :Montréal, Québec)
Wymer, DeeAnne.
Byers, A. Martin,1937-
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2010.
This collection of essays addresses important questions, like these and others, by examining the cultural and social nature of the well-known Ohio Hopewell monumental earthworks. Scholars discuss the purpose, meaning, and role of earthworks and other artifacts, theorizing on how they may have reflected political, social, and practical ecological organization.
This collection of essays addresses important questions, like these and others, by examining the cultural and social nature of the well-known Ohio Hopewell monumental earthworks. Scholars discuss the purpose, meaning, and role of earthworks and other artifacts, theorizing on how they may have reflected political, social, and practical ecological organization.
Outgrowth of a symposium at the Society for American Archaeology's 2004 annual meeting. Cf. acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-390) and index.
Introduction / A. Martin Byers and DeeAnne Wymer -- Section 1. Symbolic and practical settlement interaction -- Riverworld : life and meaning in the Illinois Valley / Douglas K. Charles -- Why move? : Ohio Hopewell sedentism revisited / Paul J. Pacheco -- The land between the mounds : the role of "empty" spaces in the Hopewellian built environment / Lauren Sieg and Jarrod Burks -- Section 2. The earthworks and their geospatial relations -- The ceremonial landscape of the Newark earthworks and the Raccoon Creek Valley / Bradley T. Lepper -- Hopewell cosmography at Newark and Chillicothe, Ohio / Ray Hively and Robert Horn -- Strange sightings on the Scioto / Warren DeBoer -- Section 3. The earthworks and their material cultural relations -- Enclosed by stone / Robert V. Riordan -- The Turner-Hopewell axis : exploring interaction through embankment form and mortuary patterning / A. Martin Byers -- Section 4. The hermeneutic and phenomenological perspective -- The earthworks hermeneutically considered / John E. Hancock -- The "heartland" Woodland settlement system : cultural traditions and resolving key puzzles / A. Martin Byers -- Section 5. Critical methodology and epistemology -- Where do (Hopewell) research answers come from? / DeeAnne Wymer -- Section 6. Hopewell settlement patterns and symbolic landscapes -- Coda: still seeking "Hopewell" / N'omi B. Greber.
Description based on print version record.
Earthworks (Archaeology)
Landscapes
Landscapes
Subsistence economy
Land settlement patterns
Hopewell culture