Ohio Hopewell (Other Keyword)
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This paper examines Woodland (ca. 1,000 BCE to 1,000 CE) land use patterns in the lower Little Miami River valley of Ohio. Theoretically, two models can be applied to the distribution of archaeological sites which date to the Woodland cultural period in this region: an ideological model based on ceremonial and mortuary behavior and a pragmatic model based on the socio-economic optimizing and risk-reducing behaviors of human evolutionary ecology. Archaeological data including artifact typology...
Scioto Hopewell Concepts of Soul-Like Essences in Humans: Mortuary Evidence in Light of Historic Woodland and Plains Native American Concepts (2016)
Scioto Hopewell conceptions of soul-like essences in humans are evident in the systematic placements of grave goods of particular kinds at particular bodily locations of inhumations, and with insights from comparative information on historic Woodland and Plains Native Americans. Analysis of 284 burials from 11 Scioto Hopewell cemeteries indicates a recognition of one "free" journeying soul and multiple "body" souls; their bodily residences, locations of exit upon death, and likely directions...