The organization of dissonance in Adena-Hopewell societies of eastern North America

Henry, Edward R.; Barrier, Casey R.

doi:10.1080/00438243.2015.1132175

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“…Southwest of Mound 10 we identified a potential circular post structure 10 m in diameter (Figure 12c). This feature appears similar to other post-enclosures or paired-post structures in the Middle Ohio Valley [2,22,36,[86][87][88][89][90][91]. We have yet to test this feature with excavations; however, the exterior of the circular feature appears to have numerous possible pits associated with it.…”

Section: Gradiometer Results From the Johnston Sitementioning

confidence: 82%

“…The Middle Woodland period in eastern North America is characterized by the florescence of a near continent-wide social movement evidenced by novel religious rituals, elaborate craft production and exchange, and the rise of monumental ceremonial centers [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. Alongside these changes came an increase in the importance of domesticated plant crops, some of which were associated with mortuary and other rituals, while a reliance on foraging wild plant foods and hunting was maintained; archaeologists refer to this subsistence pattern as the Eastern Agricultural Complex [43][44][45][46][47][48].…”

Section: The Johnston Site Within the Middle Woodland Era Pinson Mounds Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating LiDAR and Geophysical Surveys at the Johnston Site, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, USA

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Archaeologists often use near-surface geophysics or LiDAR-derived topographic imagery in their research. However, rarely are the two integrated in a way that offers a robust understanding of the complex historical palimpsests embedded within a social landscape. In this paper we present an integrated aerial and terrestrial remote sensing program at the Johnston Site, part of the larger Pinson Mounds landscape in the American MidSouth. Our work at Johnston was focused on better understanding the history of human landscape use and change so that we can begin to compare the Johnston Site with other large Middle Woodland (200 BC–AD 500) ceremonial centers in the region. Our research allowed us to examine the accuracy of an early map of the Johnston Site made in the early 20th century. However, our integrated remote sensing approach allows us to go well beyond testing the usefulness of the map; it helps identify different uses of the site through time and across space. Our research emphasizes the importance of an integrated remote sensing methodology when examining complex social landscapes of the past and present.

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“…Contemporary archaeological thoughts may bring us closer to the political ecology of the ' earthmovers'. Albó (1990) drew the almost automatic conclusion that because of the sophisticated infrastructures, there must have been a centralised organisation, but remains from hierarchical institutions would expectedly be standardized and repetitive with regard to constructions (Henry and Barrier 2016). Homogeneity would prevail, but the archaeological evidence from Moxos stresses heterogeneity in earthworks.…”

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“…Since there is no sign of a central power, communities must have unified to produce the large earthen constructions. Henry and Barrier (2016) studied social bonds in a North American case without evidence of top-down leadership. They argue that kinship was performed and that it required ongoing maintenance of social ties to sustain coalition and consensus.…”

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Amazonian Erasures: Landscape and Myth-making in Lowland Bolivia

Christoffersen¹

2018

Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History

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Radical land-use changes are under way in Bolivia's Beni Department. As a prelude to changes, tales of idle land and premodern peoples have emerged, resembling the Pristine Myth that accompanied the 'discovery' of the Americas. In this article, I revisit the history of this area to show that its landscape and people have been re-narrated over time in ways that resonate with political economic concerns. I describe three dominant historical landscapes of Moxos, and the transformations that took place in between them, and show how material and conceptual landscape changes fed each other and obscured previous systems. In reinforcing loops they thus allowed for the birth or rebirth of myths of empty landscapes and traditional peoples, myths then used to naturalise transformations. I argue that new variants of the myths once again will erase indigenous peoples and their management practices from the landscape, and I stress the importance of investigating history with all its complexity when negotiating development. We must pay particular attention to the dangers of myth; essentialised characterisations of indigenous peoples and their interests risk reducing the available space for them to manoeuvre politically-but also for us to understand the nuanced relationships between history, landscapes, its peoples and the wider world.

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“…Put another way, we should not ask ''how complex are Middle Woodland societies'' in relative terms (i.e., ''more'' or ''less complex''), but rather ''how are Middle Woodland societies complex'' (sensu Cobb 2003). Along these lines, researchers in the Ohio Valley have recently begun to trace the implications of heterarchical forms of social organization on Adena-Hopewell settlement and ceremonialism (Henry 2013;Henry and Barrier 2016). Whether or not these models apply to all or (perhaps more likely) parts of the Middle Woodland Southeast awaits further analysis of the region's complex record of daily life and multiscalar interactions.…”

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Local and “Global” Perspectives on the Middle Woodland Southeast

Wright

2016

J Archaeol Res

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During the Middle Woodland period, from 200 BC to AD 600, south-eastern societies erected monuments, interacted widely, and produced some of the most striking material culture of the pre-Columbian era, but these developments are often overshadowed by the contemporaneous florescence of Hopewell culture in Ohio. I argue that the demonstrable material links between the Middle Woodland Southeast and Midwest demand that we cease to analyze these regional archaeological records in isolation and adopt multiscalar perspectives on the social fields that emerged from and impacted local Middle Woodland societies. In synthesizing recent research on Middle Woodland settlement, monumentality, interaction, and social organization, I make explicit comparisons between the Middle Woodland Southeast and Ohio Hopewell, revealing both commonalities and contrasts. New methodological approaches in the Southeast, including geophysical survey techniques, Bayesian chronological modeling, and high-resolution provenance analyses, promise to further elucidate site-specific histories and intersite connectivity. By implementing theoretical frameworks that simultaneously consider these local and global dimensions of Middle Woodland sociality, we may establish the southeastern Middle Woodland period as an archaeological context capable of elucidating the deep history of the Eastern Woodlands as well as long-standing issues surrounding middle-range societies.

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The organization of dissonance in Adena-Hopewell societies of eastern North America

Cited by 34 publications

References 52 publications

Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating LiDAR and Geophysical Surveys at the Johnston Site, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, USA

Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating LiDAR and Geophysical Surveys at the Johnston Site, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, USA

Amazonian Erasures: Landscape and Myth-making in Lowland Bolivia

Local and “Global” Perspectives on the Middle Woodland Southeast

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