A. Martin Byers

The Real Mound Builders of North America (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Real Mound Builders of North America takes the standard position that the cultural communities of the Late Woodland period hiatus-when little or no transregional monumental mound building and ceremonialism existed-were the linear cultural and social ancestors of the communities responsible for the monumental earthworks of the unique Mississippian ceremonial assemblage, and further, these Late Woodland communities were the direct linear cultural and social descendants of those communities responsible for the great Hopewellian earthwork mounds and embankments and its associated unique ceremonial assemblage. Byers argues that these communities persisted largely unchanged in terms of their essential social structures and cultural traditions while varying only in terms of their ceremonial practices and their associated sodality organizations that manifested these deep structures. This continuist historical trajectory view stands in contrast to the current dominant evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt social and cultural discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and earthworks, mounds and embankments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666901283
• Artikelnr.: 68979470

Autorenporträt

A. Martin Byers (1937-2021) was professor emeritus at Vanier College and research associate at McGill University in the Department of Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Alternate Views of the Prehistoric Mound Builders of the Eastern
Woodlands of North America
Chapter 2. The Warranting Imperative and Sacred Bundles
Chapter 3. The First Order Ohio Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere and the Ross
County, Ohio, Interface
Chapter 4. The Second Order Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere: Illinois-Havana
and Indiana-Crab Orchard
Chapter 5. The Late Prehistoric Period and the Dual Communal
Heterarchy/Cult Sodality Heterarchy Model
Chapter 6. The Vacant Quarters and the Transition to the Post-Mississippian
Era Late Prehistoric Period: An Empirical Demonstration
Chapter 7. The Late Prehistoric and Post-Mississippian Era Late Prehistoric
Period: Communal Heterarchies of the Eastern Woodlands