{"product_id":"hopewell-settlement-patterns-subsistence-and-symbolic-landscapes-9780813080598","title":"Hopewell Settlement Patterns, Subsistence, and Symbolic Landscapes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Important to all those who want to understand current directions in Hopewellian studies. Its most intriguing aspect is the sense it gives of scholars at work, debating and refining their ideas and interpretations about the Hopewell world.\"--Sarah Ward Neusius, Indiana University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Highly recommended for its intellectually probing examination of Ohio Hopewell archaeology.\"--James A. Brown, Northwestern University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere the builders of the famous earthworks and mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, people we today call Ohio Hopewell, residentially mobile or sedentary populations? What role and meaning did Hopewell earthworks play within these ancient societies? Ultimately, can they teach us anything or help us see things anew?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays addresses important questions, like these and others, by examining the cultural and social nature of the well-known Ohio Hopewell monumental earthworks. Scholars discuss the purpose, meaning, and role of earthworks and other artifacts, theorizing on how they may have reflected political, social, and practical ecological organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented in a unique \"dialogical\" structure, this series of open conversations and debates about divergent archaeological practices provides a unique opportunity for the contributors to directly assess their colleagues' various approaches to studying these ancient communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.\u003cbr\u003eMartin Byers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003etaught anthropology and archaeology for thirty years at Vanier College, \u003cbr\u003eMontreal, and is now a research associate at McGill University. He is the\u003cbr\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Ohio Hopewell Episode: Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Gained \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCahokia: \u003cbr\u003eA World Renewal Cult Heterarchy\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDeeAnne\u003cbr\u003eWymer\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of anthropology at Bloomsburg University and her work on\u003cbr\u003epaleoethnobotany has been widely published over the past twenty years.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52078252884242,"sku":"9780813080598","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c4e3bddb-3081-4095-a943-00a3ce5b3ab5.jpg?v=1772538673","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hopewell-settlement-patterns-subsistence-and-symbolic-landscapes-9780813080598","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}