Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands: The Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality Heterarchies

by A. Martin Byers

A. Martin Byers challenges the traditional views of the Ohio Hopewell embankment earthworks, providing an interpretation of them as sites of sacred games and world renewal rituals built and used by complex alliances of cult sodalities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759120323
• ISBN13: 9780759120327
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"