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Adena 'houses' and their implications for Early Woodland settlement models in the Ohio Valleyessay 1986 • Seeman, Mark F.
Eastern Early Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Seeman examines some Early Woodland burial sites for their insight into Adena burial practices. He is specifically interested in refuting the assertion that there are house structures underneith Adena mounds. He takes the position that these structur...The Hopewell interaction sphereBook 1979 • Seeman, Mark F.
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This monograph is a modified version of Seeman's Ph.D. dissertation. Seeman analyzes Struever and Houart's 1972 model of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere in more detail. Seeman tries to determine exactly what kind of artifacts were traded and how comp...Feasting with the deadessay 1979 • Seeman, Mark F.
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Seeman proposes a link between feasting, redistribution, and the operation of the charnel houses in Ohio Hopewell. He believes that the food remains found around the mortuary mounds are evidence of food redistribution and feasting that occurred durin...Fluted point characteristics at three large sitesessay 1994 • Seeman, Mark F. et al.
Early Paleo-Indian • New World > New World
This document compares fluted points from Welling, Nobles Pond, and Sandy Springs in order to understand settlement patterns. Point type, raw material, and breakage are three of the variables examined....CHAPTER NINE Hopewell settlements at the Liberty Earthworks, Ross County, Ohioessay 1997 • Coughlin, Sean & Seeman, Mark F.
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The archaeological material surface collected over 25 years by Robert Harness Jr. on his property is analyzed in this chapter. The Harness property includes the Liberty Earthworks. Coughlin and Seeman examined the data to determine settlement pattern...