The real mound builders of North America : a critical realist prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD

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Full Title:: The real mound builders of North America : a critical realist prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD / A. Martin Byers

Variant Titles:: Critical realist prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD

Subjects:: Mound-builders--East (U.S.)
Mound-builders--Canada, Eastern
Woodland Cree--History
Woodland Cree--Rites and ceremonies
Excavations (Archaeology)--East (U.S.)
Excavations (Archaeology)--Canada, Eastern

Table of Contents:: How Is Archaeological Record Constructed? -- Debunking the 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Mound Builder Mythology -- Alternate Views of the Prehistoric Mound Builders of the Eastern Woodlands of North America -- The Warranting Imperative and Sacred Bundles -- The First Order Ohio Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere and the Ross County, Ohio, Interface -- The Second Order Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere : Illinois-Havana and Indiana-Crab Orchard -- The Late Prehistoric Period and the Dual Communal Heterarchy/Cult Sodality Heterarchy Model -- The Vacant Quarters and the Transition to the Post-Mississippian Era Late Prehistoric Period : An Empirical Demonstration -- The Late Prehistoric and Post-Mississippian Era Late Prehistoric Period : Communal Heterarchies of the Eastern Woodlands.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:: "The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted unchanged in terms of their essential structures and traditions, varying only in ceremonial practices that manifested these structures"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm