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The Functions and Meanings of Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Artifacts in Ethnohistorical Perspective

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Clear projectile points knapped from quartz crystals. Five-tone, cane panpipes sheathed in silver and copper. Shiny hemispheres of copper, schist, or chlorite, sometimes hollow, sometimes solid. Alligator teeth, real and copper effigies. Plummets made of shell too light to have served as net sinkers. Barracuda jaws. These and other fantastic artifacts were socially and spiritually loud-spoken in the ceremonies and lives of Ohio Hopewell people. What are Western archaeologists to make of them, today, removed 2000 years and many cultural forms from Ohio Hopewell societies?

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Carr, C., Weeks, R., Bahti, M. (2008). The Functions and Meanings of Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Artifacts in Ethnohistorical Perspective. In: The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77387-2_11

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