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Hopewell Settlement Patterns, Subsistence, and Symbolic Landscapes

Name: Hopewell Settlement Patterns, Subsistence, and Symbolic Landscapes
Author: A. Martin Byers
ISBN: 9780813080598

Edited by A. Martin Byers and DeeAnne Wymer

Published by: University Press of Florida

This volume address important questions about the ancient societies of the Middle Ohio Valley by examining the cultural and social nature of the Ohio Hopewell monumental earthworks.

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Examining the meaning of the Ohio Hopewell monumental earthworks within the societies that built them

Were the builders of the famous earthworks and mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, people we today call Ohio Hopewell, residentially mobile or sedentary populations? What role and meaning did Hopewell earthworks play within these ancient societies? Ultimately, can they teach us anything or help us see things anew?

This collection of essays addresses important questions, like these and others, by examining the cultural and social nature of the well-known Ohio Hopewell monumental earthworks. Scholars discuss the purpose, meaning, and role of earthworks and other artifacts, theorizing on how they may have reflected political, social, and practical ecological organization.

Presented in a unique “dialogical” structure, this series of open conversations and debates about divergent archaeological practices provides a unique opportunity for the contributors to directly assess their colleagues’ various approaches to studying these ancient communities.

A. Martin Byers taught anthropology and archaeology for thirty years at Vanier College, Montreal, and is now a research associate at McGill University. He is the author of The Ohio Hopewell Episode: Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Gained and Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy. DeeAnne Wymer is professor of anthropology at Bloomsburg University and her work on paleoethnobotany has been widely published over the past twenty years.

“Important to all those who want to understand current directions in Hopewellian studies. Its most intriguing aspect is the sense it gives of scholars at work, debating and refining their ideas and interpretations about the Hopewell world.”—Sarah Ward Neusius, professor emeritus, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“Highly recommended for its intellectually probing examination of Ohio Hopewell archaeology.”—James A. Brown, professor emeritus, Northwestern University

“This volume should be read by all researchers interested in the Hopewell phenomenon, but the theoretical perspectives and dialogues contained within have implications and applications well beyond the geographic and temporal focus of the book.”—Southeastern Archaeology

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
A. Martin Byers and DeeAnne Wymer

Section 1. Symbolic and Practical Settlement Interaction

Chapter 1. Riverworld: Life and Meaning in the Illinois Valley
Douglas K. Charles

Chapter 2. Why Move? Ohio Hopewell Sedentism Revisited
Paul J. Pacheco

Chapter 3. The Land between the Mounds: The Role of “Empty” Spaces in the Hopewellian Built Environment
Lauren Sieg and Jarrod Burks

Section 2. The Earthworks and Their Geospatial Relations

Chapter 4. The Ceremonial Landscape of the Newark Earthworks and the Raccoon Creek Valley
Bradley T. Lepper

Chapter 5. Hopewell Cosmography at Newark and Chillicothe, Ohio
Ray Hively and Robert Horn

Chapter 6. Strange Sightings on the Scioto
Warren DeBoer

Section 3. The Earthworks and Their Material Cultural Relations

Chapter 7. Enclosed by Stone
Robert V. Riordan

Chapter 8. The Turner-Hopewell Axis: Exploring Interaction through Embankment Form and Mortuary Patterning
A. Martin Byers

Section 4. The Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Perspective

Chapter 9. The Earthworks Hermeneutically Considered
John E. Hancock

Chapter 10. The “Heartland” Woodland Settlement System: Cultural Traditions and Resolving Key Puzzles
A. Martin Byers

Section 5. Critical Methodology and Epistemology

Chapter 11. Where Do (Hopewell) Research Answers Come From?
DeeAnne Wymer

Section 6. Hopewell Settlement Patterns and Symbolic Landscapes

Chapter 12. Coda: Still Seeking “Hopewell”
N’omi B. Greber

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