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CHAPTER FOUR How to construct a model: a personal memoir
ohio hopewell community organization • Kent, Ohio • Published In 1997 • Pages: 105-128
By: Prufer, Olaf H..
Abstract
Prufer uses this chapter to point out that, 'There never was such a thing as a 'Prufer Model of Ohio Hopewell Settlement Pattern,' certainly nothing that in any way, shape or form, resembled or was intended to be a formal model….So, with [the] McGraw [site] in hand, I speculated ex nihilo. I never took these speculations seriously. I based them on the application of Occam's Razor…In other words, I played around on paper, long-hand, with the help of many martinis…Anybody who seriously thinks that this was intended to be a formal model… is sadly mistaken.' (page 123). Nevertheless, Prufer describes how he came to believe the Ohio Hopewell lived in dispersed hamlets or farmsteads away from the ceremonial earthworks and he briefly describes his work at the McGraw site.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry ; 2003
- Field Date
- 1963
- Coverage Date
- Middle Woodland
- Coverage Place
- southern Ohio; United States
- Notes
- Olaf H. Prufer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-128)
- LCCN
- 96027659
- LCSH
- Hopewell culture