A Martin Byers: 2 books
Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands
The Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality Heterarchies
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.C. to A.D. 400, that is radically different from the prevailing theory. Byers critically addresses all the arguments and characterizations that make up the current treatment of the embankment earthworks...
The Real Mound Builders of North America
A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC–1450 AD
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The Real Mound Builders of North America takes the standard position that the cultural communities of the Late Woodland period hiatus—when little or no transregional monumental mound building and ceremonialism existed—were the linear cultural and social ancestors of the communities responsible...