The Real Mound Builders of North America

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

A. Martin Byers (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2024 | Second Edition
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0127-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	644 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-0127-X / 166690127X
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-0127-6 / 9781666901276
Zustand	Neuware