Hopewell ceremonial landscapes of Ohio : more than mounds and geometric earthworks / by Mark J. Lynott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynott, Mark J., author.

Series:

American Landscapes (Series) ; v. 1.

American landscapes ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hopewell culture--Ohio.

Hopewell culture.

Earthworks (Archaeology)--Ohio.

Earthworks (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio--Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Woodland Indians--Ohio--Antiquities.

Woodland Indians.

Indians of North America--Ohio--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park (Ohio)--Antiquities.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park (Ohio).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nearly 2000 years ago, people living in the river valleys of southern Ohio built earthen monuments on a scale that is unmatched in the archaeological record for small-scale societies. The period from c. 200 BC to c. AD 500 (Early to Middle Woodland) witnessed the construction of mounds, earthen walls, ditches, borrow pits and other earthen and stone features covering dozen of hectares at many sites and hundreds of hectares at some. The development of the vast Hopewell Culture geometric earthwork complexes such as those at Mound City, Chilicothe; Hopewell; and the Newark earthworks was accompan

Contents:

Chapter 1. More than mounds and ditches, an introduction to Ohio Hopewell ceremonial landscapes. Ohio and the Beginning of North American archaeology

Mortuary mounds and artifacts

Expanding research interests in earthworks and ceremonial centers

Ohio Hopewell constructed landscapes and the digital revolution

Ohio Hopewell : an iconic name and iconic sites, but what is it?

Chapter 2. Current issues in the construction of Ohio Hopewell ceremonial landscapes. Hopewell variation and distribution

Time and Hopewell archaeology

Energy analysis : how many people did it take to build Ohio Hopewell ceremonial landscapes

Sedentary farmers or mobile foragers?

Mensuration, geometry, and the sky

Alignments and reading the heavens

The great Hopewell road

Were ceremonial landscapes planned designs? : models and hypotheses

Chapter 3. The Hopeton Earthworks Project. Geophysical survey and trench excavations

Embankment wall features : geoarchaeology; radiocarbon results

Non-embankment wall features

Near the Earthworks : Triangle, Red Wing, Overly, and Cryder sites

What have we learned about the Hopeton Earthworks?

Chapter 4. Studies of Ohio Hopewell ceremonial landscapes. South-eastern Ohio : Newark Earthworks; Marietta

Scioto River valley : Seip; High Bank Earthwork; Anderson Earthwork; Mound City; Hopewell Mound Group; Shriver Circle; Spruce Hill

South-west Ohio : Brush Creek, the Great Miami and Little Miami River drainages : Fort Hill, Highland County; Fort Ancient; Foster's Crossing; Pollock Works; Miami Fort; Turner Group of Earthworks; Stubbs Earthwork

Chapter 5. What do we know about Hopewell ceremonial landscapes? Constructed landscapes, site preparation and planning

Material selection and the placement of material : art or engineering?

Landscape features : unique and diverse

Time and landscape construction

How were ceremonial landscapes used? : Ritual refuse pits at the Riverside site, Hopewell Mound Group; The Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient; Craft Houses and other wooden structures; A great post-circle and many buildings; Beyond the enclosure at Mound City

Some additional thoughts

Chapter 6. Some final thoughts : what we still need to learn. Landscapes and time

Southern Ohio before monument construction

The meaning behind landscape forms

Settlement sites and ceremonial landscapes

When and why did the Hopewell era end?

Beyond southern Ohio

Future studies and final thoughts

Appendix 1. A model of the construction of Hopeton Earthworks / by Timothy Schilling

Appendix 2. Ohio Hopewell ceremonial sites open to the public.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782977551

1782977554

9781782977575

1782977570

OCLC:

918984170