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ABSTRACTMax Weber's concept of routinization offers a useful framework for understanding the relationship between political economy and the organization of religious movements. Here, we apply this concept to a comparison of Hopewell... more
In the lower American Southeast, regional scale social interactions burgeoned alongside the growth of nucleated villages, widespread mound-building projects, and conspicuous mortuary ceremonialism during the Middle and Late Woodland... more
The Great Hopewell Road is a prehistoric parallel-walled roadway that archaeologists hypothesize to have passed from the Newark Earthworks in Licking County, Ohio, to the vicinity of Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, a distance of about 60... more
Study of cultural-heritage objects with embellished realistic and abstract designs made up of connected and intertwined curves crosscuts a number of related disciplines, including archaeology, art history, and heritage management.... more
Honouring the dead is a universal principle that has been evidenced since the dawn of time. Although burial of the dead has not been experienced universally, ritual burial practices have been widespread throughout millennia and it is... more
Bird effigies were constructed from cobble stones at Sugar Run Mound, Pennsylvania and North Benton Mound, Ohio. Burials were found in direct association with the bird effigies. Birds and bird-like deities were important air symbols to... more
In the most general terms, archaeologists have classified two types of copper ear spools; solid and bi-cymbal as Hopewell and copper covered and pulley as MIssissippian. In this survey of the Copper Artifact Master Database (CAMD), we'll... more
A sample of hafted bifaces from two Middle Archaic sites located in the Salt Creek Valley in Cook and DuPage Counties of northeastern Illinois were compared to samples of similar hafted bifaces from southern Illinois and southwestern... more
Appendix A for Location, Delineation, and Evaluation of the
Samuels’ Site (1Ms136),
a Copena Mortuary Mound Group
in Marshall County, Alabama
Samuels’ Site (1Ms136),
a Copena Mortuary Mound Group
in Marshall County, Alabama
Appendix A of Location, Delineation, and Evaluation of the
Samuels’ Site (1Ms136),
a Copena Mortuary Mound Group
in Marshall County, Alabama
Samuels’ Site (1Ms136),
a Copena Mortuary Mound Group
in Marshall County, Alabama
Lithic tools from the Middle Woodland period (200 BC-AD500) have been recovered in Mississippian contexts (AD 1100-1400) at both Angel Mounds and the Southwind site in southwestern Indiana: Middle Woodland and other pre-Mississippian... more