In The Adena: Mound Builders of the Ohio Valley, Elliot Rowan explores one of the earliest monumental cultures of ancient North America. Flourishing across the Ohio Valley and neighboring regions for centuries, the Adena transformed forests and river terraces with great burial mounds and ceremonial earthworks, creating sacred landscapes that endured long after the communities that built them had changed.
Drawing on archaeological discoveries, burial evidence, artifacts, settlement remains, and modern scientific research, Rowan reconstructs a society that left no written records yet preserved remarkable traces of its world in the earth. He examines Adena villages and seasonal life, hunting and early cultivation, craftsmanship and long-distance exchange, social organization and religious belief, and the enormous communal effort required to raise monuments such as the great conical mounds that still survive in Ohio and West Virginia.
More than the story of an ancient mound-building tradition, this book reveals the Adena as part of the deep Indigenous history of eastern North America. Their customs evolved gradually into the wider ceremonial world associated with Hopewell, while their surviving monuments challenge conventional ideas about cities, states, and civilization. Across more than two thousand years, the mounds of the Ohio Valley have endured as powerful reminders of a people who shaped the landscape to honor ancestors, community, and memory.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In The Adena: Mound Builders of the Ohio Valley, Elliot Rowan explores one of the earliest monumental cultures of ancient North America. Flourishing across the Ohio Valley and neighboring regions for centuries, the Adena transformed forests and river terraces with great burial mounds and ceremonial earthworks, creating sacred landscapes that endured long after the communities that built them had changed. Drawing on archaeological discoveries, burial evidence, artifacts, settlement remains, and modern scientific research, Rowan reconstructs a society that left no written records yet preserved remarkable traces of its world in the earth. He examines Adena villages and seasonal life, hunting and early cultivation, craftsmanship and long-distance exchange, social organization and religious belief, and the enormous communal effort required to raise monuments such as the great conical mounds that still survive in Ohio and West Virginia. More than the story of an ancient mound-building tradition, this book reveals the Adena as part of the deep Indigenous history of eastern North America. Their customs evolved gradually into the wider ceremonial world associated with Hopewell, while their surviving monuments challenge conventional ideas about cities, states, and civilization. Across more than two thousand years, the mounds of the Ohio Valley have endured as powerful reminders of a people who shaped the landscape to honor ancestors, community, and memory. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798172503795
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In The Adena: Mound Builders of the Ohio Valley, Elliot Rowan explores one of the earliest monumental cultures of ancient North America. Flourishing across the Ohio Valley and neighboring regions for centuries, the Adena transformed forests and river terraces with great burial mounds and ceremonial earthworks, creating sacred landscapes that endured long after the communities that built them had changed. Drawing on archaeological discoveries, burial evidence, artifacts, settlement remains, and modern scientific research, Rowan reconstructs a society that left no written records yet preserved remarkable traces of its world in the earth. He examines Adena villages and seasonal life, hunting and early cultivation, craftsmanship and long-distance exchange, social organization and religious belief, and the enormous communal effort required to raise monuments such as the great conical mounds that still survive in Ohio and West Virginia. More than the story of an ancient mound-building tradition, this book reveals the Adena as part of the deep Indigenous history of eastern North America. Their customs evolved gradually into the wider ceremonial world associated with Hopewell, while their surviving monuments challenge conventional ideas about cities, states, and civilization. Across more than two thousand years, the mounds of the Ohio Valley have endured as powerful reminders of a people who shaped the landscape to honor ancestors, community, and memory. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798172503795
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