Real Mound Builders of North America

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

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvA. Martin Byers

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-01-08
Mått158 x 237 x 25 mm
Vikt644 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
Upplaga2
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666901276

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Chapter 1. Alternate Views of the Prehistoric Mound Builders of the Eastern Woodlands of North AmericaChapter 2. The Warranting Imperative and Sacred BundlesChapter 3. The First Order Ohio Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere and the Ross County, Ohio, InterfaceChapter 4. The Second Order Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere: Illinois-Havana and Indiana-Crab OrchardChapter 5. The Late Prehistoric Period and the Dual Communal Heterarchy/Cult Sodality Heterarchy ModelChapter 6. The Vacant Quarters and the Transition to the Post-Mississippian Era Late Prehistoric Period: An Empirical DemonstrationChapter 7. The Late Prehistoric and Post-Mississippian Era Late Prehistoric Period: Communal Heterarchies of the Eastern Woodlands

In what may be the most accessible introduction to his thinking, this posthumous volume from Martin Byers summarizes his views on the nature of the social systems behind the earthwork and mound centers of eastern North America. Addressing the same archaeologically-revealed Middle Woodland and Mississippian landscapes as those who view them as the product of competitive and territorial hierarchically-organized societies, he tells us in a brilliant exposition why he believes those same groups were communal and custodial heterarchies.