Book
Mounds for the dead: an analysis of the Adena culture
Carnegie Museum • 37 • Published In 1963 • Pages: 315
By: Dragoo, Don W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dragoo excavated and analyzed the material from the Cresap Mound, a stratified Adena mound in West Virginia. Excavation and analysis of this mound provided the first real relative chronology for Adena. In addition to presenting the data from the Cresap Mound, Dragoo reinvestigated the major Adena museum collections in the Ohio Valley. This also helped with developing the relative chronology. The other major sites in the Ohio Valley are described and then compared with the Adena mounds that had been found on the Delmarva peninsula. Dragoo also looks for evidence on the origins of Adena and finds it mostly in the adjacent Late Archaic cultures such as Red Ocher and Glacial Kame. Adena is also briefly contrasted with Hopewell.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ornament
- Special deposits
- Lithic industries
- Miscellaneous structures
- Paint and dye manufacture
- General tools
- Weapons
- Visual arts
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Adena
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- June-August 1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- early to late Adena
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cresap Mound (46 Mr 7); West Virginia, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- BY Don W. Dragoo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-310)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Adena culture