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

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 977/.01
• Soggetto topico: Woodland culture - Ohio River Valley; Excavations (Archaeology) - Ohio River Valley
• Soggetto geografico: Ohio River Valley Antiquities Congresses
• Altri autori: ApplegateDarlene <1964-> MainfortRobert C. <1948->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Woodland period systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley
• ISBN: 0-8173-8306-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826967303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II