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

Summary

This is the tDAR Project page that represents Reports of Investigation 105 from the Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University. 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.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• BSUAAL Reports of Investigations

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Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Kevin C. Nolan; Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University

Principal Investigator(s): Kevin C. Nolan; Michael J. Shott

Sponsor(s): Ohio History Fund, Ohio History Connection

Repository(s): Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University

Prepared By(s): Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University

Submitted To(s): Ohio History Fund, Ohio History Connection

Record Identifiers

Reports of Investigation(s): 105

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Ball State University Applied Anthropology Laboratories