The Ohio Hopewell episode : paradigm lost and paradigm gained /
"Ohio has a unique prehistory which is written in large earthwork monuments across its landscape. In the Ohio Hopewell Episode, the author, A. Martin Byers, has presented a new interpretive reconstruction of the culture of the prehistoric Native American groups who were responsible for these mo...
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| Language: | English |
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Akron, Ohio :
University of Akron Press,
2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Ohio history and culture.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- What counts as the Ohio Hopewell?
- I: The world embodied
- The Ohio Hopewell embankment earthwork systematics
- The C-R configuration (circle-rectilinear)
- Meaning, symbolic pragmatics, and Ohio Hopewell stylistics
- The Newark world renewal ritual center
- Critique of the world renewal model
- II: An immanent, sacred deontic ecology
- Ecology, cosmology, and society
- Subsistence, settlement, and ceremony
- Woodland world renewal mortuary ceremony
- Early/middle woodland deontic ecological strategies
- Cult, clan, and ritual spheres
- Autonomous world renewal cult systems
- The Seip and harness great house CBLs
- The ritual cycle of generations
- III: Ohio Hopewell, sacrifice, and world renewal
- Funerary crematories or sacrificial altars?
- World renewal post-mortem sacrifice at Mound City
- The vaulted chamber crypts of Ohio Hopewell
- The offering altars of the Hopewell site
- The laying-in crypt and burial altars of Turner
- The controlled fire reduction features (CFRs) of Turner
- The Turner-Hopewell ideological axis
- IV: Factional competition, conflict, and rupture
- The ideological imperative
- Time and the material correlates of ideological factionalism
- The shifting ideological postures of Ohio Hopewell
- A critique of the civic-ceremonial center view of Ohio Hopewell.
