The Scioto Hopewell and their neighbors
Subtitle: bioarchaeological documentation and cultural understanding
By: D. Troy Case and Christopher Carr.
Contributors: Carr, Christopher, 1952-
Series: Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology; Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 774
ISBN-13: 9780387773865
Subjects: Hopewell culture -- Ohio -- Scioto River Valley; Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Scioto River Valley -- Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Scioto River Valley -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Ohio -- Scioto River Valley; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Ohio -- Scioto River Valley; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ohio -- Scioto River Valley; Earthworks (Archaeology) -- Ohio -- Scioto River Valley; Scioto River Valley (Ohio) -- Antiquities
Description: "This book presents, for the first time, a detailed, holistic synthesis of the lifeways, culture, history, and material record of the ceremonially and socially rich Hopewell peoples who lived in the Scioto valley and neighboring areas in Ohio in the first centuries A.D. The Scioto Hopewell built monumental, 80 acre earthworks aligned precisely to astronomical events, masterfully worked glistening metals and semiprecious stones into elegant designs, and honored their dead with these vocal artifacts in community burial houses two-thirds the size of a football field. The Scioto Hopewell's intricate social order and religious concepts of alliance afforded them three centuries of intercommunity peace."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 691-731) and indexes.