The Newark Earthworks : enduring monuments, contested meanings / edited by Lindsay Jones and Richard D. Shiels. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - Studies in religion and culture .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: I had no idea! Competing claims to distinction at the Newark Earthworks / Part I. The Newark Earthworks in the context of American and Ohio history -- The Newark Earthworks past and present / Part II. The Newark Earthworks in the context of Hopewell archaeology and archaeoastronomy -- The Newark Earthworks: a monumental engine of world renewal / The Newark Earthworks: a grand unification of earth, sky, and mind / Part III. The Newark Earthworks in cross-cultural archaeological contexts: Nazca, Chaco, and Stonehenge -- An Andeanist's perspective on the Newark Earthworks / Hopewell and Chaco: the consequences of rituality / Beyond Newark: prehistoric ceremonial centers and their cosmologies / Part IV. The Newark Earthworks in interdisciplinary contexts: architectural history, cartography, and religious studies -- The Newark Earthworks as "works" of architecture / The Newark Earthworks as a liminal place: a comparative analysis of Hopewell-period burial rituals and mounds with a particular emphasis on house symbolism / The cartographic legacy of the Newark Earthworks / The modern religiosity of the Newark Earthworks / Part V. The Newark Earthworks in the context of indigenous rights and identity: American and international frames -- Native (re)investments in Ohio: evictions, earthworks preservation, and tribal stewardship / Whose earthworks? Newark and indigenous people / Part VI. The Newark Earthworks in the context of law and jurisprudence: ancient and ongoing possibilities -- The peoples belong to the land: contemporary stewards for the Newark Earthworks / Caring for depressed cultural sites, Hawaiian style / Imagining "law-stuff" at the Newark Earthworks / Lindsay Jones -- Richard D. Shiels -- Bradley T. Lepper -- Ray Hively and Robert Horn -- Helaine Silverman -- Stephen H. Lekson -- Timothy Darvill -- John E. Hancock -- Thomas Barrie -- Margaret Wickens Pearce -- Thomas S. Bremer -- Marti L. Chaatsmith -- Mary N. MacDonald -- Duane Champagne and Carole Goldberg -- Greg Johnson -- Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.



9780813937779 9780813937793


Mounds--Ohio--Newark.
Hopewell culture--Ohio.
Mound-builders--Ohio.
Indians of North America--Antiquities.--Ohio


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