A. Martin Byers taught anthropology and humanities at Vanier College in Montreal for thirty years and was recently research associate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. He is author of Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy (University Press of Florida 2006) and The Ohio Hopewell Episode: Paradigm Lost and Paradigm Gained (University of Akron Press 2004).

This is an enormously rich and provocative book that I cannot hope to summarize in the brief space allotted for this review. I heartily recommend it to the attention of anyone interested in the Hopewell episode, of course, but also anyone grappling with the challenge of how we give social meaning to achaeological phenomena.

• Part I. The Ohio Hopewell as a System of Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Domestic/Ceremonial DichotomyChapter 3. The Tripartite Alliance Model: A CritiqueChapter 4. The Nature of Ohio Hopewell Mortuary CeremonialismChapter 5. The Symbolic Meaning of Material CultureChapter 6. The Ecclesiastic-Communal Cult Sodality ModelChapter 7. The Hidatsa Age-Set System and the Ritual Usufruct Conveyancing and Franchising ModelChapter 8. The Ohio Hopewell Cult Sodality Heterarchy System: From the Bottom-UpChapter 9. The Murphy Tract: The Empirical Grounding of the Cult Sodality Cluster ModelPart II. Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in Ohio HopewellChapter 10. The Sacred Games Tournée of the Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 11. The North Fork-Paint Creek Interface Zone and the Terminal Conveyancing of Custodial RegaliaChapter 12. The Ohio Hopewell as Dispersed Third-Order Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 13. The Development of the Ohio Hopewell Cult Sodality Heterarchy SystemChapter 14. Embankment Earthwork and Way Station FacilitiesChapter 15. The Structuring of Ohio Hopewell Sites and PathwaysChapter 16. Embankment Earthwork Site Alignments and RelationsChapter 17. The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as Neighbors and Strangers

A. Martin Byers taught anthropology and humanities at Vanier College in Montreal for thirty years and was recently research associate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. He is author of Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy (University Press of Florida 2006) and The Ohio Hopewell Episode: Paradigm Lost and Paradigm Gained (University of Akron Press 2004).

This is an enormously rich and provocative book that I cannot hope to summarize in the brief space allotted for this review. I heartily recommend it to the attention of anyone interested in the Hopewell episode, of course, but also anyone grappling with the challenge of how we give social meaning to achaeological phenomena.

• Part I. The Ohio Hopewell as a System of Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Domestic/Ceremonial DichotomyChapter 3. The Tripartite Alliance Model: A CritiqueChapter 4. The Nature of Ohio Hopewell Mortuary CeremonialismChapter 5. The Symbolic Meaning of Material CultureChapter 6. The Ecclesiastic-Communal Cult Sodality ModelChapter 7. The Hidatsa Age-Set System and the Ritual Usufruct Conveyancing and Franchising ModelChapter 8. The Ohio Hopewell Cult Sodality Heterarchy System: From the Bottom-UpChapter 9. The Murphy Tract: The Empirical Grounding of the Cult Sodality Cluster ModelPart II. Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in Ohio HopewellChapter 10. The Sacred Games Tournée of the Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 11. The North Fork-Paint Creek Interface Zone and the Terminal Conveyancing of Custodial RegaliaChapter 12. The Ohio Hopewell as Dispersed Third-Order Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 13. The Development of the Ohio Hopewell Cult Sodality Heterarchy SystemChapter 14. Embankment Earthwork and Way Station FacilitiesChapter 15. The Structuring of Ohio Hopewell Sites and PathwaysChapter 16. Embankment Earthwork Site Alignments and RelationsChapter 17. The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as Neighbors and Strangers

A. Martin Byers taught anthropology and humanities at Vanier College in Montreal for thirty years and was recently research associate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. He is author of Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy (University Press of Florida 2006) and The Ohio Hopewell Episode: Paradigm Lost and Paradigm Gained (University of Akron Press 2004).

This is an enormously rich and provocative book that I cannot hope to summarize in the brief space allotted for this review. I heartily recommend it to the attention of anyone interested in the Hopewell episode, of course, but also anyone grappling with the challenge of how we give social meaning to achaeological phenomena.

• Part I. The Ohio Hopewell as a System of Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Domestic/Ceremonial DichotomyChapter 3. The Tripartite Alliance Model: A CritiqueChapter 4. The Nature of Ohio Hopewell Mortuary CeremonialismChapter 5. The Symbolic Meaning of Material CultureChapter 6. The Ecclesiastic-Communal Cult Sodality ModelChapter 7. The Hidatsa Age-Set System and the Ritual Usufruct Conveyancing and Franchising ModelChapter 8. The Ohio Hopewell Cult Sodality Heterarchy System: From the Bottom-UpChapter 9. The Murphy Tract: The Empirical Grounding of the Cult Sodality Cluster ModelPart II. Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in Ohio HopewellChapter 10. The Sacred Games Tournée of the Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 11. The North Fork-Paint Creek Interface Zone and the Terminal Conveyancing of Custodial RegaliaChapter 12. The Ohio Hopewell as Dispersed Third-Order Cult Sodality HeterarchiesChapter 13. The Development of the Ohio Hopewell Cult Sodality Heterarchy SystemChapter 14. Embankment Earthwork and Way Station FacilitiesChapter 15. The Structuring of Ohio Hopewell Sites and PathwaysChapter 16. Embankment Earthwork Site Alignments and RelationsChapter 17. The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as Neighbors and Strangers