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The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding /

This book presents, for the first time, a detailed, holistic synthesis of the lifeways, culture, history, and material record of the ceremonially and socially rich Hopewell peoples who lived in the Scioto valley and neighboring areas in Ohio in the first centuries A.D. The Scioto Hopewell built monu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Case, Daniel Troy (Autor), Carr, Christopher (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rationale and Framework
  • Documenting the Lives of Ohio Hopewell People: A Philosophical and Empirical Foundation
  • The Scioto Hopewell: Land, People, Culture, and History
  • Environmental Setting, Natural Symbols, and Subsistence
  • Settlement and Communities
  • Social and Ritual Organization
  • World View and the Dynamics of Change: The Beginning and the End of Scioto Hopewell Culture and Lifeways
  • Inventory and Documentation
  • Documenting the Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Record: The Bioarchaeological Data Base
  • Ceremonial Site Locations, Descriptions, and Bibliography
  • Definition of Variables and Variable States
  • Evaluating the Consistency of Age and Sex Assessments of Ohio Hopewell Human Remains by Previous Investigators
  • Aging and Sexing Human Remains from the Hopewell Site
  • The Functions and Meanings of Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Artifacts in Ethnohistorical Perspective
  • Contextualizing Preanalyses of the Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Data, I: Age, Sex, Burial-Deposit, and Intraburial Artifact Count Distributions
  • Contextualizing Preanalyses of the Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Data, II: Associations of Artifact Classes across Burials
  • Data Accuracy and Precision: A Comparison of the HOPEBIOARCH Data Base to N. Greber's and T. Lloyd's Data Bases
  • Future Directions
  • Coming to Know Ohio Hopewell Peoples Better: Topics for Future Research, Masters' Theses, and Doctoral Dissertations.