Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding

Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding

Rationale and Framework.- Documenting the Lives of Ohio Hopewell People: A Philosophical and Empirical Foundation.- The Scioto Hopewell: Land, People, Culture, and History.- Environmental Setting, Natural Symbols, and Subsistence.- Settlement and Communities.- Social and Ritual Organization.- World View and the Dynamics of Change: The Beginning and the End of Scioto Hopewell Culture and Lifeways.- Inventory and Documentation.- Documenting the Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Record: The Bioarchaeological Data Base.- Ceremonial Site Locations, Descriptions, and Bibliography.- Definition of Variables and Variable States.- Evaluating the Consistency of Age and Sex Assessments of Ohio Hopewell Human Remains by Previous Investigators.- Aging and Sexing Human Remains from the Hopewell Site.- The Functions and Meanings of Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Artifacts in Ethnohistorical Perspective.- Contextualizing Preanalyses of the Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Data, I: Age, Sex, Burial-Deposit, and Intraburial Artifact Count Distributions.- Contextualizing Preanalyses of the Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Data, II: Associations of Artifact Classes across Burials.- Data Accuracy and Precision: A Comparison of the HOPEBIOARCH Data Base to N. Greber’s and T. Lloyd’s Data Bases.- Future Directions.- Coming to Know Ohio Hopewell Peoples Better: Topics for Future Research, Masters’ Theses, and Doctoral Dissertations.