Hopewell ceremonial landscapes of Ohio : more than mounds and geometric earthworks /

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Author / Creator:	Lynott, Mark J., author.
Imprint:	Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2015. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	American landscapes ; volume 1 American Landscapes (Series) ; v. 1.
Subject:	Hopewell culture -- Ohio. Earthworks (Archaeology) -- Ohio. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ohio -- Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Woodland Indians -- Ohio -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Antiquities. Woodland Indians -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Earthworks (Archaeology) Hopewell culture. Ohio -- Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Ohio. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11247564

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ISBN:	9781782977575 1782977570 9781782977551 1782977554 9781782977544 1782977546
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287). Print version record.
Summary:	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 accompan.
Other form:	Print version: Lynott, Mark J. Hopewell ceremonial landscapes of Ohio 9781782977544

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