Christopher Carr Archaeology

​Hopewell Religion, Ritual, Art

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  • History of Hopewell Studies and Future Research
  • Hopewell Natural Environment, Subsistence
  • Hopewell Community and Social Life
  • Hopewell Religion, Ritual, Art
  • Hopewell Chronology
  • Hopewellian Interregional Interaction
  • Scioto Hopewell Local Ceramic Exchange
  • Evolution of Woodland Period Alliance Strategies
  • HOPEBIOARCH Database & Documentation 2008
  • Other Hopewell Archaeology Data Bases 2005, 2021
  • Postcontact Woodland Indian Religion
  • Postcontact Woodland Indian Ethnography Databases
  • Anthropology & Archaeology of Religion – Crosscultural, Theory
  • Anthropology & Archaeology of Economics—Theory
  • Mortuary Analysis
  • Ceramic Analysis, X-Radiography
  • Metals, Paints, and Other Materials Analysess
  • Hopewell Copper Artwork & Digital Image Processing Project
  • Survey for Unpublished Hopewell Art
  • Textile Structural Analysis
  • Material Style Theory and Analysis
  • Quantitative Methods and Statistics
  • Geophysical Remote Sensing
  • Human Alteration of Soil Chemistry and Physics
  • Origin of Domestication Economies
  • Book – Being Scioto Hopewell
  • Book – The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors
  • Book – Gathering Hopewell
  • Book – Style, Society, and Person
  • Book – For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis
  • Book – Soil Resistivity Surveying
  • Video Symposium – Personhood and Ritual Drama
  • Courses Taught

Publications, Grant Proposals and Reports, Seminar Paper

2021   Souls in Flight:  Ritual dramas of Death Journeys through the Above Realm(s) of Scioto Hopewell Societies.  (1st au. with A. C. Novotny.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp 493-591.  Springer Nature, New York.  99 pp. https://link.springer.com
 
2021   More Souls in Flight:  Ritual Drams of Death Journeys through the Above Realm(s) of Hopewellian and Adena Societies Beyond the Scioto.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 593-659.  Springer Nature, New York.  67 pp.  https://link.springer.com
 
2021   Mississippian, Effigy Mound Complex, and Georgia Woodland Bird-Persons and Bird Effigies:  A Comparison to Adena and Hopewellian Cases.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 661-698.  Springer Nature, New York.  38 pp.  https://link.springer.com
 
2021   The Family and Community in Three Scioto Hopewell Ritual Dramas of Death Journeys.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 699-782.  Springer Nature, New York.  84 pp. https://link.springer.com
 
2021   Little Miami Hopewell Ritual Dramas of Death Journeys through the Lower Realm(s).  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 783-833.  Springer Nature, New York.  51 pp. https://link.springer.com
 
2021   The Genre of the Ritual Drama in Ohio Hopewellian Ceremonialism:  A Comparative Summary.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 835-855.  Springer Nature, New York.  21 pp. https://link.springer.com
 
2021   Scioto Hopewell Relational Personhood and Social Cooperation:  Unmasking the Projection of western Competition onto Ritual Flamboyance and Paths to Social Complexity.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 1113-1219.  Springer Nature, New York.  107 pp. https://link.springer.com
 
2021   The Scioto Hopewell Human Person as Multiple Soul-Like Essences:  Society-Wide Commonalities and Age and Gender Distinctions.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 1221-1340.  Springer Nature, New York.  120 pp. https://link.springer.com
 
2021   Ohio Hopewell Human Persons as Multiple Soul-Like Essences:  Intercommunity and Regional Distinctions.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 1341-1407.  Springer Nature, New York.  67 pp.
 
2021   Nested Personhood, Masking, and the Question of Personnages in Scioto Hopewell, Adena, and Glacial Kame Societies.  In Being Scioto Hopewell:  Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by C. Carr, pp. 1409-1512.  Springer Nature, New York. 104 pp. https://link.springer.com
 
2019   Soul Concepts of Scioto Hopewell Communities:  The Ontological Foundation of Their Tripartite Ceremonial Alliance. (1st au. with Heather Smyth). In Encountering Hopewell in the Twenty-first Century, Ohio and Beyond, ed. by B. G. Redmond, B. J. Ruby, and J. Burks,  pp. 154-194.  University of Akron Press, Akron, OH.  41 pp.
 
2018   Getting to the Soul of Personhood:  A Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of an Interregional Hopewellian “Religion.” (1st au. with Heather Smyth and Brianna Rafidi).  In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas:  Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms, ed. by M. R. Baltus and S. E. Baires,  pp. 109-152.  Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. 44 pp.
 
2015   Arrangement of Human Remains and Artifacts in Scioto Hopewell Burials:  Some Dramatic Rituals and Ritual Dramas. (1st au. with Anna Novotny).  In Redefining Death: Modified Human Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest, edited by E. Hargrave, S. Schermer, K Hedman, and R. Lillie.  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL.  22 pp.
 
2014   Ohio Hopewell  Depictions of Composite Creatures:  Part II – Archaeological Context and a Journey to an Afterlife. (1st au. with Robert McCord). Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 40(1):18-47.  30  pp.
 
2013   Ohio Hopewell Depictions of Composite Creatures:  Part I – Biological Identification and Ethnohistorical Insights.  (1st au. with Robert McCord). Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 38(1):5-81.  74  pp.
 
2008   Environmental Setting, Natural Symbols, and Subsistence.  In The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors: Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding, by D. T. Case and C. Carr, pp 41-100. Springer Publishers, New York.  60 pp.
 
2008   World View and the Dynamics of Change:  The Beginning and the End of Scioto Hopewell Culture and Lifeways.  In The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors: Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding, by D. T. Case and C. Carr, pp. 289-328. Springer Publishers, New York. 40 pp.

2007   Directions of the Scioto Hopewell Cosmos.  Paper presented at the “Cosmology and Society in the Ancient Amerindian World” workshop.  Sante Fe Institute, Sante Fe, NM.  October 28-31.
 
2005   The Nature of Leadership in Ohio Hopewellian Societies: Role Segregation and the Transformation from Shamanism. (1st au. with D. T. Case). In Gathering Hopewell:  Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, ed. by C. Carr and D. T. Case, pp. 177-237.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing, New York.  61 pp.
 
2005   Scioto Hopewell Ritual Gatherings: A Review and Discussion of Previous Interpretations and Data.  In Gathering Hopewell:  Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, ed. by C. Carr and D. T. Case, pp. 463-479.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing, New York. 18 pp.
 
2005   Estimating the Sizes and Social Compositions of Mortuary-Related Gatherings at Scioto Hopewell Earthwork-Mound Sites. (1st au. with B. Goldstein and  J. Weets). In Gathering Hopewell:  Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, ed. by C. Carr and D. T. Case, pp. 480-552.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing, New York.  54 pp. 
 
2005   Smoking Pipe Compositions and Styles as Evidence of the Social Affiliations of Mortuary Ritual Participants at the Tremper Site, Ohio. (2nd au. with J. Weets, D. Penney, and G. Carriveau.  In Gathering Hopewell:  Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, ed. by C. Carr and D. T. Case, pp. 533-552.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing, New York.  20 pp.

1998-1999   Reconstructing the Cosmology of Prehistoric Ohio Hopewell Peoples, and Its Role in the Development of Supralocal Leadership.  Abstract Final Report, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated.  Biennial Report for 1998-1999:104-105.  Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York.
 
1996   Reconstructing the Cosmology of Prehistoric Ohio Hopewell Peoples, and Its Role in the Development of Supralocal Leadership.  Grant proposal submitted to the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated.  Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe.
  • Home
  • History of Hopewell Studies and Future Research
  • Hopewell Natural Environment, Subsistence
  • Hopewell Community and Social Life
  • Hopewell Religion, Ritual, Art
  • Hopewell Chronology
  • Hopewellian Interregional Interaction
  • Scioto Hopewell Local Ceramic Exchange
  • Evolution of Woodland Period Alliance Strategies
  • HOPEBIOARCH Database & Documentation 2008
  • Other Hopewell Archaeology Data Bases 2005, 2021
  • Postcontact Woodland Indian Religion
  • Postcontact Woodland Indian Ethnography Databases
  • Anthropology & Archaeology of Religion – Crosscultural, Theory
  • Anthropology & Archaeology of Economics—Theory
  • Mortuary Analysis
  • Ceramic Analysis, X-Radiography
  • Metals, Paints, and Other Materials Analysess
  • Hopewell Copper Artwork & Digital Image Processing Project
  • Survey for Unpublished Hopewell Art
  • Textile Structural Analysis
  • Material Style Theory and Analysis
  • Quantitative Methods and Statistics
  • Geophysical Remote Sensing
  • Human Alteration of Soil Chemistry and Physics
  • Origin of Domestication Economies
  • Book – Being Scioto Hopewell
  • Book – The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors
  • Book – Gathering Hopewell
  • Book – Style, Society, and Person
  • Book – For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis
  • Book – Soil Resistivity Surveying
  • Video Symposium – Personhood and Ritual Drama
  • Courses Taught