Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Christopher Carr is an archaeologist with primary interest in the prehistory of eastern North America, especially the social organizations, rituals and belief systems of tribal peoples of the Midwest from about 1000 B.C. to Contact. To reconstruct these aspects of their lifeways, he focuses on their mortuary practices and art. His research makes strong use of anthropological theories about the causes of development of tribal and rank social organization from simpler social systems. It also has involved the development of archaeological theory about how mortuary practices and artistic style reflect social and political structures and processes.

Reviews

From the reviews:"Future archaeologists will likely look back on this book as marking a major watershed in the study of Ohio’s Hopewell people." George Milner, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA