Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley–Great Lakes

437 Pages·2015·9.61 MB·English

by  Brian G. Redmond

Building the Past
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Building the Past
Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture
in the Ohio Valley–Great Lakes
Edited by Brian G. Redmond
and Robert A. Genheimer
University Press of Florida
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xv
1. Building the Past, an Introduction 1
Brian G. Redmond
2. Dwelling on the Past: Late Archaic Structures of the Ohio Region 8
Matthew P. Purtill
3. For Immediate Occupancy: Cozy Three-Thousand-Year-Old Heritage
Winter House with River View near Lake Huron—Apply to Terminal
Archaic Realty 29
Christopher J. Ellis, James R. Keron, John Menzies, Stephen G. Monckton, and
Andrew Stewart
4. The Ecology of Indigenous Domestic Architecture in the Hocking
River Valley, Ohio 63
Elliot M. Abrams and Paul E. Patton
5. Wooden Structures and Cultural Symbolism in Ohio Hopewell 85
N’omi B. Greber
6. The End 126
Robert V. Riordan
7. Living Large on the Bottom: A Structural Engineering Analysis of
Three Ohio Hopewell Structures from Brown’s Bottom, Ross County,
Ohio 146
Noah Kanter, Paul J. Pacheco, Renato Perucchio, and Jarrod Burks
8. Changes in Precontact Domestic Architecture at the Heckelman Site
in Northern Ohio 188
Brian G. Redmond and Brian L. Scanlan
9. Wall Trench Structures in Fort Ancient Villages of Southwestern Ohio
and Southeastern Indiana: Temporal and Formal Considerations 218
Robert A. Cook and Robert A. Genheimer
10. Building Community on the White River in Central Indiana:
Structures as Reflective of Societal Change at the Late Prehistoric
Castor Farm Site 252
Robert G. McCullough
11. Fort Ancient Public Structures 295
David Pollack and A. Gwynn Henderson
12. A Framework for Interpreting Structures 321
William Kennedy and Geoff Carter
References Cited 367
List of Contributors 407
Index 413
Figures
1.1. Locations of selected sites with wooden-post architecture 4
2.1. Late Archaic sites with evidence for structures in Ohio region 11
2.2. Plan view of Site 33AD56 12
2.3. Late Archaic C-shaped structures in the Ohio region 15
2.4. Plan view of Yellowbush Creek Camp site (33MS29) with results of
geophysical survey 16
2.5. Plan view of Late Archaic Mabel Hall site 17
2.6. Late Archaic ovoid structures in Ohio region 20
2.7. Distribution of postmold features and structures at Late Archaic
Grayson site 21
2.8. Late Archaic square structures in Ohio region 23
2.9. Late Archaic “phantom” structures in Ohio region 24
2.10. Interior floor space for Late Archaic structures in Ohio region 26
3.1. Location of Davidson site in southwestern Ontario 30
3.2. Map of Davidson site showing excavated areas and artifacts 32
3.3. Plan map of large pithouse at Davidson site 34
3.4. North–south profile of large pithouse, Davidson site 35
3.5. North–south profile through house deposits 36
3.6. Linear house partition remnant from pithouse Feature 5 37
3.7. Small ovate preform in deposits in pithouse Feature 5 39
3.8. Profile view of Feature 32 wall trench 42
3.9. Plan map of wall trench house, Davidson site 44
3.10. Plan map of pithouse Feature 3/9, Davidson site 45
3.11. West–east profile of pit area of Feature 3/9 48