Building the past : prehistoric wooden post architecture in the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes / edited by Brian G. Redmond and Robert A. Genheimer. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xvi, 420 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographies and index.

Building the past, an introduction / Dwelling on the past : late archaic structures of the Ohio region / For immediate occupancy : cozy three-thousand-year-old heritage winter house with river view near Lake Huron : apply to terminal archaic realty / The ecology of indigenous domestic architecture in the Hocking River Valley, Ohio / Wooden structures and cultural symbolism in Ohio Hopewell / The end / Living large on the bottom : a structural engineering analysis of three Ohio Hopewell structures from Brown's Bottom, Ross County, Ohio / Changes in precontact domestic architecture at the Heckelman Site in northern Ohio / Wall trench structures in Fort Ancient villages of southwestern Ohio and southeastern Indiana : temporal and formal considerations / Building community on the White River in central Indiana : structures as reflective of societal change at the late prehistoric Castor Farm Site / Fort Ancient public structures / A framework for interpreting structures / Brian G. Redmond -- Matthew P. Purtill -- Christopher J. Ellis, James R. Keron, John Menzies, Stephen G. Monckton, and Andrew Stewart -- Elliot M. Abrams and Paul E. Patton -- N'omi B. Greber -- Robert V. Riordan -- Noah Kanter, Paul J. Pacheco, Renato Perucchio, and Jarrod Burks -- Brian G. Redmond and Brian L. Scanlan -- Robert A. Cook and Robert A. Genheimer -- Robert G. McCullough -- David Pollack and A. Gwynn Henderson -- William Kennedy and Geoff Carter.

This volume presents the most current research on domestic, public, and ritual architecture created over four millennia ago along the Ohio River, its tributaries, and the adjacent lower Great Lakes.



9780813055091


Architecture, Prehistoric--Ohio River Valley.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio River Valley.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Great Lakes Region (North America)
Architecture, Prehistoric--Great Lakes Region (North America)
Indian architecture--Ohio River Valley.
Indian architecture--Great Lakes Region (North America)
Indians of North America--Antiquities.--Ohio River Valley
Indians of North America--Antiquities.--Great Lakes Region (North America)


Electronic Books.

GN799 / .B855 2015