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Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Bladelet Use at the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient

Miller, Gregory Logan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275003441

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2010, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Anthropology.
In the past twenty years, lithic use-wear studies have been used to determine the function of Hopewell bladelets from the Middle Woodland period in Eastern North America. These studies have uniformly shown that bladelets were multipurpose, utilitarian tools in domestic contexts. Bladelets found in mounds and at earthworks also were used for many different tasks, but some have argued that bladelets took on special symbolic functions in these ceremonial contexts. The question of bladelet function in ceremonial contexts remains unanswered because use-wear studies of bladelets have not been extensively applied to well provenienced ceremonial assemblages. Recent excavations at the Moorehead Circle within the Fort Ancient Earthwork (33WA2) in Ohio provided a sample of 66 bladelets from within a well defined ceremonial feature. A microwear study of these bladelets found that they were used for a wide variety of tasks. Analysis indicates that the Moorehead Circle bladelets represent the same range of tasks as bladelets found in Hopewell domestic contexts. The results are compared to expectations from several theories about Hopewell bladelets. The results of this study best fit the argument that bladelets were given as gifts during aggregations at earthworks.
Richard Yerkes (Advisor)
Robert Cook (Committee Member)
Kristen Gremillion (Committee Member)
45 p.
Archaeology
Middle Woodland; Hopewell; Bladelets; Fort Ancient; Microwear

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  • Miller, G. L. (2010). Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Bladelet Use at the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275003441

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miller, Gregory. Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Bladelet Use at the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient. 2010. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275003441.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miller, Gregory. "Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Bladelet Use at the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275003441

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