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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454783703321

Titolo

Woodland period systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Darlene Applegate and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8173-8306-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ApplegateDarlene <1964->

MainfortRobert C. <1948->

Disciplina

977/.01

Soggetti

Woodland culture - Ohio River Valley

Excavations (Archaeology) - Ohio River Valley

Electronic books.

Ohio River Valley Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--P. [ii].

Papers originally presented at the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Columbus, Ohio, held in October 2002, and the Sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Milwaukee, Wis., held in April 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Woodland taxonomy in the Middle Ohio Valley: a historical overview / Darlene Applegate -- Adena and Hopewell in the Middle Ohio Valley: to be or not to be? / N'omi B. Greber -- Archaeology at the edges of time and space: working across and between woodland period taxonomic units in Central Ohio / Jarrod Burks -- The Bullock site: a forgotten mound in Woodford County, Kentucky / Eric J. Schlarb -- Walker-noe: an Early Middle Woodland Adena mound in Central Kentucky / David Pollack ... [et al.] -- Middle Woodland ritualism in the Central Bluegrass: evidence from the Amburgey site, Montgomery County, Kentucky / Michael D. Richmond, Jonathan P. Kerr -- Adena: rest in peace? / R. Berle Clay -- Reflections on taxonomic practice / James A. Brown -- Learning from the past: the history of Ohio Hopewell taconomy and its implications for archaeological practice / Lauren E. Sieg, R. Eric Hollinger -- Rethinking the cole complex, a post-Hopewellian archaeological unit in Central Ohio / William S. Dancey, Mark F. Seeman



-- The many messages of death: mortuary practices in the Ohio Valley and Northeast / Sean M. Rafferty -- Taxonomic homogeneity and cultural divergence in the midcontinent / David S. Brose -- Valley view: Hopewell taxonomy in the Middle Ohio region / Lauren  E. Sieg -- Building Woodland archaeological units in the Kanawha River Basin, West Virginia / Patrick D. Trader -- Some comments on Woodland taxonomy in the Middle Ohio Valley / Robert C. Mainfort, Jr.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection provides a comprehensive vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term "Woodland."  The Middle Ohio Valley is an archaeologically rich region that stretches from southeastern Indiana, across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, and into northwestern West Virginia. In this area are some of the most spectacular and diverse Woodland Period archaeological sites in North America, but these sites and their rich cultural remains do not fit easily into the traditional Southeastern classification system. This volume, with contributions by