The domestic/ceremonial dichotomy -- The tripartite alliance model : a critique -- The nature of Ohio Hopewell mortuary ceremonialism -- The symbolic meaning of material culture -- The ecclesiastic-communal cult sodality model -- The Hidatsa age-set system and the ritual usufruct conveyancing and franchising model -- The Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system : from the bottom up -- The Murphy Tract : the empirical grounding of the cult sodality cluster model -- The sacred games tournée of the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies -- The North Fork-Paint Creek interface zone and the terminal conveyancing of custodial regalia -- The Ohio Hopewell as dispersed third-order cult sodality heterarchies -- The development of the Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system -- Embankment earthwork and way station facilities -- The structuring of Ohio Hopewell sites and pathways -- Embankment earthwork site alignments and relations -- The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as neighbors and strangers
Summary
The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.C. to A.D. 400, that is radically different from the prevailing theory. Byers critically addresses all the arguments and characterizations that make up the current treatment of the embankment earthworks and then presents an alternative interpretation. This unconventional view hinges on two basic social characterizations: the complementary heterarchical community model and the cult sodality heterarchy model. Byers posits that these two models interact to characterize the Ohio Middle Woodland period
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-531) and index
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