Research Catalog

Title

Ancient earthen enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands / edited by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., and Lynne P. Sullivan.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mainfort, Robert C., 1948-
• Sullivan, Lynne P.

Description

268 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ripley P. Bullen series

Uniform Title

Ripley P. Bullen series.

Subject

• Indians of North America > East (U.S.) > Antiquities
• Earthworks (Archaeology) > East (U.S.)
• Woodland Indians > Antiquities
• East (U.S.) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-262) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Explaining earthen enclosures / Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., and Lynne P. Sullivan -- Broken circles, owl monsters, and black earth midden: separating sacred and secular at Poverty Point / Jon L. Gibson -- Prehistoric enclosures in Louisiana and the Marksville site / Dennis Jones and Carl Kuttruff -- Defining space: an overview of the Pinson Mounds enclosure / Robert L. Thunen -- Boundaries, resistance, and control: enclosing the hilltops in Middle Woodland Ohio / Robert V. Riordan -- Architectural grammar rules at the Fort Ancient hilltop enclosure / Robert P. Connolly -- The archaeology of the Newark Earthworks / Bradley T. Lepper -- Is the Newark Circle-Octagon the Ohio Hopewell 'Rosetta Stone'? A question of archaeological interpretation / A. Martin Byers -- Defensive or sacred? An early Late Woodland enclosure in northeast Ohio / Stephanie J. Belovich -- The socioeconomic role of Late Woodland enclosures in northern Lower Michigan / Claire McHale Milner and John M. O'Shea -- Fortified village or mortuary site? Exploring the use of the Ripley site / Sarah W. Neusius, Lynne P. Sullivan, Phillip D. Neusius, and Claire McHale Milner.

ISBN

0813015928 (c : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98005507^

OCLC

• 38425858
• SCSB-10159635

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library