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The essential features of Adena ritual and their implications
Southeastern archaeology • 17 • Published In 1998 • Pages: 1-21
By: Clay, R. Berle.
Abstract
Clay explores the vertical organization of Adena burial mounds. He see it as 'a basic instability in the Adena … ritual centers on the Central Ohio Valley. It suggests to [Clay] that the structures of inter-group cooperation may have gone though cycles during which rital cooperation in mortuary was differentially expressed.' (page 19). In other words, the premound structures were used for one type of cooperative ritual by several groups. And once a mound was started, a different type of ritual had to occur at that place. He see Adena ritual structures as evidence of cooperation between small, mobile social groups
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry ; 2005
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 2400 BP-1750 BP (400 B.C.-250 A.D.)
- Coverage Place
- Ohio Valley; Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia; United States
- Notes
- R. Berle Clay
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-21)
- LCCN
- 84649369
- LCSH
- Adena culture