Recreating Hopewell - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813028981 ISBN 13: 9780813028989

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2006

Synopsis

Two thousand years ago, the Hopewell culture dominated much of eastern North America and left behind earthworks and other artifacts that continue to fascinate archaeologists. Recreating Hopewell—the first comprehensive overview of Hopewell archaeology published in a generation—represents more than two decades of new research into the vast world of the moundbuilders. This book includes contributions from scholars working at sites in the Hopewell “core” region of Ohio as well as archaeologists based in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, and Georgia. Their results are based on cultural resource management excavations and new analytical techniques, such as the remote sensing of unexcavated sites and chemical sourcing of raw materials. While providing new insights from each Hopewell region’s lithic, ceramic, faunal, and botanical data, this new research clearly shows the extent to which the Hopewell cultures differed across the midcontinent. Giving Hopewell a broader context than previously understood, the authors tie prehistory to historic Indian activities, beliefs, and customs. Scholars interested in the archaeology of eastern North America, especially those working on the juncture of ceremony and settlement, will welcome this important volume.

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Book Description

“This volume will be a major publication often utilized and cited by archaeologists across North America (and should also be attractive to any scholar from any region of the world interested in ceremony and ritual in prehistoric societies) . . . I am impressed with [its] scope, breadth and depth . . . a valuable addition to one of the most extraordinary archaeologies in the world.”—DeeAnne Wymer, Bloomsburg University   Two thousand years ago, the Hopewell culture dominated much of eastern North America and left behind earthworks and other artifacts that continue to fascinate archaeologists. Recreating Hopewell—the first comprehensive overview of Hopewell archaeology published in a generation—represents more than two decades of new research into the vast world of the moundbuilders. This book includes contributions from scholars working at sites in the Hopewell “core” region of Ohio as well as archaeologists based in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, and Georgia. Their results are based on cultural resource management excavations and new analytical techniques, such as the remote sensing of unexcavated sites and chemical sourcing of raw materials. While providing new insights from each Hopewell region’s lithic, ceramic, faunal, and botanical data, this new research clearly shows the extent to which the Hopewell cultures differed across the midcontinent. Giving Hopewell a broader context than previously understood, the authors tie prehistory to historic Indian activities, beliefs, and customs. Scholars interested in the archaeology of eastern North America, especially those working on the juncture of ceremony and settlement, will welcome this important volume.

About the Author

Douglas K. Charles, professor of anthropology and archaeology at Wesleyan University, is coeditor of Theory, Method, and Practice in Modern Archaeology.   Jane E. Buikstra, professor of bioarchaeology and the director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, is coauthor of The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View on a Reemerging Disease (UPF, 2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813028981
• ISBN 13: 9780813028989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Charles Douglas K., Buikstra Jane