Dedication to Stuart Struever.- General Introduction.- The Gathering of Hopewell.- Historical Insight into the Directions and Limitations of Recent Research on Hopewell.- Social and Political Organizations of Northern Hopewellian Peoples.- Salient Issues in the Social and Political Organizations of Northern Hopewellian Peoples: Contextualizing, Personalizing, and Generating Hopewell.- Community Organizations in the Scioto, Mann, and Havana Hopewellian Regions: A Comparative Perspective.- The Nature of Leadership in Ohio Hopewellian Societies: Role Segregation and the Transformation from Shamanism.- The Question of Ranking in Havana Hopewellian Societies: A Retrospective in Light of Multicemetery Ceremonial Organization.- The Tripartite Ceremonial Alliance among Scioto Hopewellian Communities and the Question of Social Ranking.- Animal-Totemic Clans of Ohio Hopewellian Peoples.- Gender, Status, and Ethnicity in the Scioto, Miami, and Northeastern Ohio Hopewellian Regions, and Evidenced by Mortuary Practices.- Gender and Social Differentiation within the Turner Population, Ohio, as Evidenced by Activity-Induced Musculoskeletal Stress Markers.- Gender, Role, Prestige, and Ritual Interaction across the Ohio, Mann, and Havana Hopewellian Regions, as Evidenced by Ceramic Figurines.- Ritual Gatherings of Northern Hopewellian Peoples.- Scioto Hopewell Ritual Gathering: A Review and Discussion of Previous Interpretations and Data.- Estimating the Sizes and Social Compositions of Mortuary-Related Gatherings at Scioto Hopewell Earthwork-Mound Sites.- Smoking Pipe Compositions and Styles as Evidence of the Social Affiliations of Mortuary Ritual Participants at the Tremper Site, Ohio.- Ceramic Vessel Compositions and Styles as Evidence of the Local and Nonlocal Social Affiliations of Ritual Participants at the Mann Site, Indiana.- Hopewellian Ritual Connections Across Eastern North America.- Rethinking Interregional Hopewellian "Interaction".- Hopewellian Copper Celtsfrom Eastern North America: Their Social and Symbolic Significance.- Hopewellian Panpipes from Eastern North America: Their Social, Ritual, and Symbolic Significance.- Hopewellian Copper Earspools from Eastern North America: The Social, Ritual, and Symbolic Significance of Their Contexts and Distribution.- Hopewellian Silver and Silver Artifacts from Eastern North America: Their Sources, Procurement, Distribution, and Meanings.- References.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- List of Appendixes - Index.
EAN/ISBN : 9780387273273
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Springer US
Discussed keywords: Nordamerika, Archäologie, USA
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Carr, Christopher - Case, D. Troy