Ritualised craft production at the Hopewell periphery: New evidence from the Appalachian Summit

Antiquity

Volumn 88, Issue 343, 2015, Pages 137-153

  Wright, Alice P ^a   Loveland, Erika ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian Summit; Crystal quartz; Garden Creek; Geometric enclosures; Mica; Middle Woodland period; Ohio Hopewell; Prehistoric pilgrimage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922309868     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2014.34     Document Type: Article

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