ROI105, Scale and Community in Hopewell Networks at Fort Ancient and Newark Earthworks: an expansion study

Summary

Just as Rome was not built in a day, the great Hopewell earthwork complexes were not built in a day, or in a social vacuum. We know a great deal about the earthworks, but much less about the societies that created them. Hopewell people were interacting with one another, but the social networks they were forming and dissolving is poorly understood. Understanding these social networks is vital to ultimately understanding how and why these earthworks were created. “Scale and Community in Hopewell Networks: Expansion” (SCHoNE) builds upon previous research to create multi-scale, empirical understandings of the nature and structure of Middle Woodland period interaction. The expansion study focused on the Fort Ancient and Newark Earthworks. The key findings of SCHoNE are that the occupants and visitors to Ft. Ancient and Newark and of sites around these ceremonial centers were engaging in social networks oriented in various directions with degree of participation varying by location and possibly through time.

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ROI105, Scale and Community in Hopewell Networks at Fort Ancient and Newark Earthworks: an expansion study. Eric C. Olson, Kevin C. Nolan, Michael J. Shott. 2018 ( tDAR id: 465701) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8465701

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Keywords

Investigation Types
Collections Research

Geographic Keywords
Licking County Ohio Warren County

Spatial Coverage

min long: -84.363; min lat: 39.331 ; max long: -82.233; max lat: 40.522 ;

Record Identifiers

Reports of Investigation(s): 105

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