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CHAPTER SIX Paleoethnobotany in the Licking River Valley, Ohio: implications for understanding
ohio hopewell community organization • Kent, Ohio • Published In 1997 • Pages: 153-171
By: Wymer, Dee Anne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Wymer examines the paleoethnobotanical record from four Hopewell sites in the Licking River Valley. She examined four primary botanical classes: wood charcoal, nutshell, squash rind, and seeds. She found hickory is the most common nut, hickory and oak were the most common firewood, the Eastern Agricultural Complex represents the dominant portion of the seed assemblage although fruit and berry seeds were also frequent, and squash is mostly represented by yellow-flowered gourd squash. The botanical record emphasizes the Middle Woodland population were swidden farmers who lived in small evenly dispersed hamlets, probably year-round or nearly so, and agricultural products were a major portion of their diet.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Flora
- Tillage
- Diet
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2100 BP-1800 BP (100 B.C.-200 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Licking River Valley; Ohio, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dee Anne Wymer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96027659
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopewell culture