Title: The Scioto Hopewell and their neighbors
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Material culture, Indians of North America, Human remains (Archaeology), Antiquities, Rites and ceremonies, Earthworks (Archaeology), Excavations (Archaeology), Hopewell culture, Anthropology, Archaeology, Indians of north america, rites and ceremonies, Indians of north america, social conditions, Indians of north america, material culture, Ohio, antiquities
LC classification: E99.H69 C37 2008