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The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors - Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2008)
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The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors - Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2008)
Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
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Investing in the future of Hopewell archae-
adetailedagendaofpressingempiricalissues ology is the spirit in
which this book has andintriguinginterpretivequestionsthatremain
beenwrittenandisitssubstance. Ourpassion to be addressed in the
attempt to understand to do so derives from our admiration of
Hopewellpeoples. Hopewell peoples, themselves, and all they The
first half of the book provides a achieved. Hopewell peoples of the
Scioto synthesisandexpansionofcurrentknowledge valley and their
neighbors were remarkable about the anthropology of Scioto Hopewell
by any measure. Their graceful and powerful peoples: their natural
and symbolically int- artwork, monumentalearthenarchitecture, and
preted environments, subsistence, settlement knowledge of geometry
and astronomy; their andmobilitypatterns, communityorganization
social finesse in choreographing ritual perfor- at several scales,
social-political-ritual orga- manceswithmanyhundredsofpersons,
local zation, and world view, and the history of and foreign; the
long-lasting intercommunity changes of each of these over time.
Coming peacetheyachievedthroughtherichandcross- to an understanding
of how Scioto Hopewell cuttingsocialandritualtiestheywove;andtheir
social-ceremonial life abruptly began and extraordinary sensitivity
to and relations with abruptlyended, neitherofwhichweretriggered
theanimalpersonsandspiritbeingswithwhom proximally by subsistence
or demographic they cohabited-each humble the Western change,
isoneofthefruitsbornfromattempting mind. Forus,
itseemsonlyrightandworthwhile thebroadsynthesis.
Theethnohistorypresented thatanempiricalandconceptualpathbecleared
hereismadetangiblewithover195photographs
wherebyfuturearchaeologicalworkmighthelp of artistic renderings
that Scioto Hopewell Hopewellpeoplestospeakbetterforthemselves
peoples made of themselves, of artifacts that oftheirlives,
accomplishments, concerns, and marked their social roles and were
used in disappointments. theirceremonies, andofviewsoftheirsacred
This book shares with you the empirical landscape.
toolsandabroadvisionforexploringtheways The reconstruction of
Scioto Hopewell of Scioto Hopewell and other Ohio Hopewell life
presented in this book is an integratio
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