By D. Troy Case, Christopher Carr (auth.)

This ebook offers, for the 1st time, an in depth, holistic synthesis of the lifeways, tradition, background, and fabric checklist of the ceremonially and socially wealthy Hopewell peoples who lived within the Scioto valley and neighboring parts in Ohio within the first centuries A.D. The Scioto Hopewell equipped enormous, eighty acre earthworks aligned accurately to astronomical occasions, masterfully labored glistening metals and semiprecious stones into based designs, and venerated their useless with those vocal artifacts in group burial homes two-thirds the scale of a soccer box. The Scioto Hopewell’s elaborate social order and non secular recommendations of alliance afforded them 3 centuries of intercommunity peace. the 1st 1/2 the paintings, written within the vein of vintage ethnographies that target an area team in context, thickly describes the neighborhood, traditional and symbolic environmental environment, subsistence and payment trend, neighborhood and sociopolitical association, ceremonial association, intercommunity dynamics, and international perspectives of Scioto Hopewell peoples. through taking an encompassing and old view of Scioto Hopewell existence, either its origins and finishing are printed. those specified cultural and ancient reconstructions are strongly anchored empirically within the moment 1/2 the publication. the information bases record the archaeological and human continues to be from all fifty two Ohio Hopewell ceremonial facilities which were excavated and suggested; the intrasite layouts and special geographic placements of every one of these facilities in addition to the destinations of many different, unexplored ones; and the ceremonial services, meanings, and social position institutions of fifty one different types of old wooded area local American ceremonial paraphernalia analogous to these used and interred via Ohio Hopewell peoples. The ebook can also be liberally illustrated with images and drawings of Scioto Hopewell paintings, ceremonial paraphernalia, websites, and landscapes. The authors proportion some of these info, besides many insights approximately key, destiny learn subject matters, with the desire that others will use them to proceed to pursue the empirically wealthy, holistic, and humanized knowing of Ohio Hopewell peoples started during this book.