Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes
Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes
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Abstract
The study of ancient architecture and the built environment has much to tell us about the social makeup and culture of the designers, builders, and users of these constructions. This volume presents the most current research on domestic, public, and ritual architecture created over four millennia along the Ohio River, its tributaries, and in the lower Great Lakes. Most of these chapters describe new discoveries and previously unpublished data. This compilation begins with the latest information on some of the most ancient (Late Archaic) dwellings in the region which demonstrate that early cultures built sophisticated dwellings and were much more settled than previously thought. Of particular note are the chapters which provide the first published descriptions of newly discovered Hopewell domestic and ritual constructions in the central Ohio River Valley, such as the Moorehead Circle and the Brown’s Bottom domestic hamlet. Rare evidence of post-Hopewell architecture in Ohio is derived from the recent discovery of a complete early Late Woodland domestic structure at the Heckelman site in northern Ohio. The climax of domestic architecture in the region is thoroughly investigated by three analyses of Late Prehistoric period house constructions and public architecture in the central Ohio Valley and central Indiana. The volume concludes with a discussion of how archaeologists working in the region can improve our understanding of prehistoric constructions through the development of a new interpretive framework based on basic architectural principals and nomenclature.
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Front Matter
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Building the Past, an Introduction
Brian G. Redmond
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Dwelling on the Past: Late Archaic Structures of the Ohio Region
Matthew P. Purtill
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For Immediate Occupancy: Cozy Three-Thousand-Year-Old Heritage Winter House with River View near Lake Huron—Apply to Terminal Archaic Realty
Christopher J. Ellis and others
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The Ecology of Indigenous Domestic Architecture in the Hocking River Valley, Ohio
Elliot M. Abrams andPaul E. Patton
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Wooden Structures and Cultural Symbolism in Ohio Hopewell
N’omi B. Greber
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The End
Robert V. Riordan
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Living Large on the Bottom: A Structural Engineering Analysis of Three Ohio Hopewell Structures from Brown’s Bottom, Ross County, Ohio
Noah Kanter and others
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Changes in Precontact Domestic Architecture at the Heckelman Site in Northern Ohio
Brian G. Redmond andBrian L. Scanlan
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Wall Trench Structures in Fort Ancient Villages of Southwestern Ohio and Southeastern Indiana: Temporal and Formal Considerations
Robert A. Cook andRobert A. Genheimer
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Building Community on the White River in Central Indiana: Structures as Reflective of Societal Change at the Late Prehistoric Castor Farm Site
Robert G. McCullough
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Fort Ancient Public Structures
David Pollack andA. Gwynn Henderson
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A Framework for Interpreting Structures
William Kennedy andGeoff Carter
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End Matter
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