Reclaiming the Hopewellian ceremonial sphere : 200 B.C. to A.D. 500 / A. Martin Byers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byers, A. Martin, 1937- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hopewell culture.

Woodland culture.

Earthworks (Archaeology).

Confraternities--History--To 1500.

Confraternities.

Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of North America.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 428 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Hopewellian assemblage and its social meaning

2. The community polity and the complementary heterarchical community : contrasting alternatives

3. The Ohio Hopewellian cult sodality heterarchy system and the Ohio Hopewellian ceremonial sphere

4. The sacred bundle and the symbolic pragmatic meaning of material culture : the transfer of Hopewellian ritual

5. The Hopewellian ceremonial sphere : deontic ecology and Hopewellian ritual and mortuary practices

6. Migrating bones, migrating people : funerary or postmortem sacrifical paradigms?

7. The Illinois-Havana Hopewellian mortuary mound clusters : current views

8. The Illinois-Havana Hopewellian cult sodality heterarchy system : the dual altar crypt model

9. The history-in-mounds scenario of the Elizabeth Mound cult sodality heterarchy : demonstrating the dual altar crypt model

10. The floodplain and bluff-top Hopewellian sites of the lower Illinois Valley : alternative modeling of the Hopewellian ceremonial sphere of western Illinois

11. The Mann phase and the Indiana (Mann) Hopewellian ceremonial sphere

12. The Kolomoki Site and the Swift Creek-Weeden Island ceremonial sphere

13. The dynamics of a ceremonial sphere collapse : the nature of the Middle Woodland-Late Woodland period transition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806186887

0806186887

OCLC:

908374919