The Newark Earthworks : enduring monuments, contested meanings / edited by Lindsay Jones and Richard D. Shiels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Lindsay, 1954- editor.

Shiels, Richard D., 1947- editor.

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Series:

Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)

Studies in religion and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mounds--Ohio--Newark.

Mounds.

Hopewell culture--Ohio.

Hopewell culture.

Mound-builders--Ohio.

Mound-builders.

Indians of North America--Ohio--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Ohio.

Antiquities.

Newark (Ohio)--Antiquities.

Newark (Ohio).

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

Ohio--Newark.

Physical Description:

xi, 325 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Summary:

Considered a Wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks-the gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valley-have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. In their prime one of the premier pilgrimage destinations in North America, these monuments are believed to have been ceremonial centers used by ancestors of Native Americans, called the "Hopewell culture" as social gathering places, religious shrines, pilgrimage sites, and astronomical observatories. Yet much of this territory has been destroyed by the city of Newark, and the site currently "hosts" a private golf course, making it largely inaccessible to the public. The first book-length volume devoted to the site. The Newark Earthworks reveals the magnitude and the geometric precision of what remains of the earthworks and the site's undeniable importance to our history. Including contributions from archaeologists, historians, cultural geographers, and cartographers, as well as scholars in religious studies, legal studies, indigenous studies, and preservation studies, the book follows an interdisciplinary approach to shine light on the Newark Earthworks and argues compellingly for its designation as a World Heritage Site. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: I had no idea! Competing claims to distinction at the Newark Earthworks / Lindsay Jones

Part I. The Newark Earthworks in the context of American and Ohio history

The Newark Earthworks past and present / Richard D. Shiels

Part II. The Newark Earthworks in the context of Hopewell archaeology and archaeoastronomy

The Newark Earthworks: a monumental engine of world renewal / Bradley T. Lepper

The Newark Earthworks: a grand unification of earth, sky, and mind / Ray Hively and Robert Horn

Part III. The Newark Earthworks in cross-cultural archaeological contexts: Nazca, Chaco, and Stonehenge

An Andeanist's perspective on the Newark Earthworks / Helaine Silverman

Hopewell and Chaco: the consequences of rituality / Stephen H. Lekson

Beyond Newark: prehistoric ceremonial centers and their cosmologies / Timothy Darvill

Part IV. The Newark Earthworks in interdisciplinary contexts: architectural history, cartography, and religious studies

The Newark Earthworks as "works" of architecture / John E. Hancock

The Newark Earthworks as a liminal place: a comparative analysis of Hopewell-period burial rituals and mounds with a particular emphasis on house symbolism / Thomas Barrie

The cartographic legacy of the Newark Earthworks / Margaret Wickens Pearce

The modern religiosity of the Newark Earthworks / Thomas S. Bremer

Part V. The Newark Earthworks in the context of indigenous rights and identity: American and international frames

Native (re)investments in Ohio: evictions, earthworks preservation, and tribal stewardship / Marti L. Chaatsmith

Whose earthworks? Newark and indigenous people / Mary N. MacDonald

Part VI. The Newark Earthworks in the context of law and jurisprudence: ancient and ongoing possibilities

The peoples belong to the land: contemporary stewards for the Newark Earthworks / Duane Champagne and Carole Goldberg

Caring for depressed cultural sites, Hawaiian style / Greg Johnson

Imagining "law-stuff" at the Newark Earthworks / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9780813937779

0813937779

9780813937786

0813937787

OCLC:

912383267

Publisher Number:

99971535921