essay
Adena 'houses' and their implications for Early Woodland settlement models in the Ohio Valley
early woodland archeology • 2 • Published In 1986 • Pages: 564-580
By: Seeman, Mark F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 structures were mortuaries. Seeman describes four pre-Adena (Early Woodland) morturay sites, their artifacts and types of human and animal remains. The Early Woodland burial practices in the Ohio Valley differ from the Archaic patterns in that the dead are processed in specialized mortuary camps away from settlements. This increased mortuary complexity may be a new way to bring about social integration for the macroband. Only the data that pertain to the Eastern Early Woodland were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects. The information on Adena was not indexed for OCM codes. For more information on Adena see the Adena file (NP50) in the eHRAF Collection of Archaeology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Early Woodland
- 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
- essay
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Early Woodland; 3000 BP-2500 BP (1000 B.C.-500 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ohio River Valley, Kentucky and Ohio, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mark F. Seeman
- Papers presented at the Kampsville Early Woodland Conference held on Nov. 5th and 6th, 1982, and sponsored by the Center for American Archeology
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-580)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86025855
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities