Hopewell Culture Book Review

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Dr. Mark F. Seeman is an emeritus anthropology professor from Kent State University with field work dating back to 1971. He has an extensive background in Hopewellian culture as well as the Ohio Valley. His reading discusses the presence and significance of Hopewell art, and how it compares to earlier and later societies. He also discusses the importance of this heritage to American Indians and to the overall history of archeology. The Hopewellian people had smaller communities with less of a hierarchy than the later Mississippian people. However, the ritualistic practices, trade, and art are comparatively more complex than their neighboring Archaic and Mississippian periods. Hopewell culture produced a great variety of distinct artifacts and
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