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Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands : The Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality Heterarchies
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byers, A. Martin, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confraternities--Ohio River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Confraternities.
- Cults--Ohio River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Cults.
- Earthworks (Archaeology)--Ohio River Valley.
- Earthworks (Archaeology).
- Hopewell culture--Ohio River Valley.
- Hopewell culture.
- Indians of North America--Games--Ohio River Valley.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Material culture--Ohio River Valley.
- Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Social life and customs.
- Social archaeology--Ohio River Valley.
- Social archaeology.
- Antiquities.
- Indians of North America--Games.
- Indians of North America--Material culture.
- Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
- Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.
- Ohio River Valley.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (868 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A. Martin Byers challenges the traditional views of the Ohio Hopewell embankment earthworks, providing an interpretation of them as sites of sacred games and world renewal rituals built and used by complex alliances of cult sodalities.
- Contents:
- I; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; II; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-531) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41772-9
- 979-82-16-26749-2
- 1-282-92214-9
- 9786612922145
- 0-7591-2034-X
- OCLC:
- 699518089
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