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
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-731)-and indexes
