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The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings

The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings

Paperback

Series: Studies in Religion and Culture

Native American HistoryReligion General General United States History

ISBN10: 0813937787
ISBN13: 9780813937786
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Apr 1 2016
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks--the gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. In their prime one of the premier pilgrimage destinations in North America, these monuments are believed to have been ceremonial centers used by ancestors of Native Americans, called the Hopewell culture, as social gathering places, religious shrines, pilgrimage sites, and astronomical observatories. Yet much of this territory has been destroyed by the city of Newark, and the site currently hosts a private golf course, making it largely inaccessible to the public.

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