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- The first book to examine the Hopewell people using a holistic approach Case and Carr, editors of Gathering Hopewell, are the experts in the field The material in the book is based on 10 years of research and analysis of the data uncovered at several sites
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Rationale and Framework
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The Scioto Hopewell: Land, People, Culture, and History
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Inventory and Documentation
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Future Directions
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About this book
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. The first half of the work, written in the vein of classic ethnographies that focus on a local group in context, thickly describes the local, natural and symbolic environmental setting, subsistence and settlement pattern, community and sociopolitical organization, ceremonial organization, intercommunity dynamics, and world views of Scioto Hopewell peoples. By taking an encompassing and historical view of Scioto Hopewell life, both its origins and ending are revealed. These detailed cultural and historical reconstructions are strongly anchored empirically in the second half of the book. The data bases document the archaeological and human remains from all 52 Ohio Hopewell ceremonial centers that have been excavated and reported; the intrasite layouts and precise geographic placements of most of these centers as well as the locations of many other, unexplored ones; and the ceremonial functions, meanings, and social role associations of 51 kinds of historic Woodland Native American ceremonial paraphernalia analogous to those used and interred by Ohio Hopewell peoples. The book is also liberally illustrated with photographs and drawings of Scioto Hopewell artwork, ceremonial paraphernalia, sites, and landscapes. The authors share all these data, along with manyinsights about key, future research topics, with the hope that others will use them to continue to pursue the empirically rich, holistic, and humanized understanding of Ohio Hopewell peoples begun in this book.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Future archaeologists will likely look back on this book as marking a major watershed in the study of Ohio’s Hopewell people." George Milner, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Authors and Affiliations
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North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
D. Troy Case
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Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Christopher Carr
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors
Book Subtitle: Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding
Authors: D. Troy Case, Christopher Carr
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77387-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-77386-5Published: 24 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6507-3Published: 04 May 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-77387-2Published: 09 July 2008
Series ISSN: 1568-2722
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 774
Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology