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HOPEWELL CEREMONIAL - AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM

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Date Issued:
1977
Summary:
The need for a definition of Hopewell which is more consistent with the facts has long been recognized. Attempts have been made to define Hopewell as a mortuary complex, a cult, a culture, and an interaction sphere, among others. None of these adequately explains the factual data accumulated over the last century. Several "core" sites in Southern Ohio have been selected for this study on the basis of the availability of original excavation reports and site similarities and differences. A close comparison of these similarities and differences has resulted in the delineation of a model, and a subsequent redefinition of Hopewell consistent with the known facts. The similarities were explained as the participation of local cultures in the wider Hopewell System, while the differences were attributed to the unchanged, or slightly modified local cultures which participated in the Hopewell System as herein defined.
Title: THE HOPEWELL CEREMONIAL - AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM.
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Name(s): HAMBURG, STEVEN JACK.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Sears, William H., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Anthropology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1977
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 71 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The need for a definition of Hopewell which is more consistent with the facts has long been recognized. Attempts have been made to define Hopewell as a mortuary complex, a cult, a culture, and an interaction sphere, among others. None of these adequately explains the factual data accumulated over the last century. Several "core" sites in Southern Ohio have been selected for this study on the basis of the availability of original excavation reports and site similarities and differences. A close comparison of these similarities and differences has resulted in the delineation of a model, and a subsequent redefinition of Hopewell consistent with the known facts. The similarities were explained as the participation of local cultures in the wider Hopewell System, while the differences were attributed to the unchanged, or slightly modified local cultures which participated in the Hopewell System as herein defined.
Identifier: 13863 (digitool), FADT13863 (IID), fau:10691 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.
Subject(s): Hopewell culture
Ohio--Antiquities
Indians of North America--Ohio--Antiquities
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