Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio: More Than Mounds and Geometric Earthworks
| By: | Lynott, Mark |
| Publisher: | Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, LLC |
| Print ISBN: | 9781782977544 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781782977575 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Nearly 2000 years ago, people living in the river valleys of southern Ohio built earthen monuments on a scale that is unmatched in the archaeological record for small-scale societies. The period from c. 200 BC to c. AD 500 (Early to Middle Woodland) witnessed the construction of mounds, earthen walls, ditches, borrow pits and other earthen and stone features covering dozen of hectares at many sites and hundreds of hectares at some. The development of the vast Hopewell Culture geometric earthwork complexes such as those at Mound City, Chilicothe