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CHAPTER FOUR How to construct a model: a personal memoir
ohio hopewell community organization • Kent, Ohio • Published In 1997 • Pages: 105-128
By: Prufer, Olaf H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Prufer uses this chapter to point out that, 'There never was such a thing as a 'Prufer Model of Ohio Hopewell Settlement Pattern,' certainly nothing that in any way, shape or form, resembled or was intended to be a formal model….So, with [the] McGraw [site] in hand, I speculated ex nihilo. I never took these speculations seriously. I based them on the application of Occam's Razor…In other words, I played around on paper, long-hand, with the help of many martinis…Anybody who seriously thinks that this was intended to be a formal model… is sadly mistaken.' (page 123). Nevertheless, Prufer describes how he came to believe the Ohio Hopewell lived in dispersed hamlets or farmsteads away from the ceremonial earthworks and he briefly describes his work at the McGraw site.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Location
- Cultural participation
- Cereal agriculture
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hopewell
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- 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 ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Middle Woodland
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Ohio; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Olaf H. Prufer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-128)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96027659
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopewell culture