The Scioto Hopewell and their neighbors

"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 monumental, 80 acre earthworks aligned precisely to astronomical events, masterfully worked glistening metals and semiprecious stones into elegant designs, and honored their dead with these vocal artifacts in community burial houses two-thirds the size of a football field. The Scioto Hopewell's intricate social order and religious concepts of alliance afforded them three centuries of intercommunity peace."--BOOK JACKET.

שנה

2008

שפה

English

סדרה

Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology

הוצאה

Springer

מהדורות

2

עמודים

774

ISBN

9780387773865

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata