The Scioto Hopewell and their neighbors : bioarchaeological documentation and cultural understanding /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Case, D. Troy.
Imprint:	New York : Springer, c2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 774 p.) : ill., maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
Subject:	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. Antiquities. Earthworks (Archaeology) Excavations (Archaeology) Hopewell culture. Human remains (Archaeology) Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Material culture. Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies. Scioto River Valley (Ohio) -- Antiquities. Ohio -- Scioto River Valley.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8886491

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Other authors / contributors:	Carr, Christopher, 1952-
ISBN:	9780387773865 (hbk.) 038777386X (hbk.) 9780387773872 0387773878
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 691-731) and indexes. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	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 Hopewella (TM)s int.
Other form:	Print version: Case, D. Troy. Scioto Hopewell and their neighbors. New York : Springer, c2008 9780387773865 038777386X

Table of Contents:

Documenting the Lives of Ohio Hopewell People: A Philosophical and Empirical Foundation; Environmental Setting, Natural Symbols, and Subsistence; Settlement and Communities; Social and Ritual Organization; World View and the Dynamics of Change: The Beginning and the End of Scioto Hopewell Culture and Lifeways; Documenting the Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Record: The Bioarchaeological Data Base; Ceremonial Site Locations, Descriptions, and Bibliography; Definition of Variables and Variable States.

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