book chapter
The Adena people
University of Tennessee Press • 6 • Published In 1974 • Pages: i-xix, 1-119, 247-370
By: Webb, William S. (William Snyder), Snow, Charles E. (Charles Ernest).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
'This study of 'The Adena People' deals largely with their burial customs and earth mounds erected over the remains of their dead; and with the physical anthropology of such skeletal material as has been preserved …' (page 5). One of the ideas put forth by the authors is that the origins of Adena (and perhaps the Adena people) came from Middle America. This no longer thought to be true, instead Adena is seen to come from local ideas and peoples of the eastern United States. This monograph contains a trait list for Adena, including descriptions of the individual traits. A listing of the then known 175 mounds can also be found. It also contains tables of the physical anthropological measurements for cranial and post-cranial material.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Anthropometry
- Comparative evidence
- Ornament
- Body alterations
- Miscellaneous structures
- Visual arts
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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 chapter
- 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
- 1930s and 1940s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Adena; 2500 BP-1790 BP (500 B.C.- 210 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ohio Valley; Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by William S. Webb and Charles E. Snow. With a chapter on Adena pottery and a foreword to the new ed. by James B. Griffin
- Reprint of the 1945 ed. published by the University of Kentucky, Lexington, which was issued as v. 6 of its Dept. of Anthropology and Archaeology Reports in anthropology and archaeology
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-356)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74010598
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Adena culture