Book Chapters by Mark Seeman
This paper examines the situational boundaries between Ohio professional and avocational archaeol... more This paper examines the situational boundaries between Ohio professional and avocational archaeologists against the backdrop of the competing priorities of each community. Here, our attention is directed toward historical development, identity construction, ethical principles, and building an inclusive archaeology at both the organizational and individual scales of interaction. The Nobles Pond Archaeological Project, a long-term, joint professional/avocational collaboration, serves as a case study.
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 2015
North American Archaeologist, 1980
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American Antiquity, 1999
Page 1. A. N «d MIDDLE WOODLAN * NON? MORTUARY INVESTIGATIONS Scale cf Wiles K>? o 30* o so Pa... more Page 1. A. N «d MIDDLE WOODLAN * NON? MORTUARY INVESTIGATIONS Scale cf Wiles K>? o 30* o so Page 2. Page 3. Ohio Hopewell Community Organization This on. N473-1H6-BZRX Page 4. Page 5. Ohio Hope well Community ...
Journal Articles by Mark Seeman
American Antiquity, 2023
Ohio Hopewell is an archaeological concept that is known worldwide but that suffers from "a disar... more Ohio Hopewell is an archaeological concept that is known worldwide but that suffers from "a disarray of radiocarbon results" (Lynott 2015:60). Here, we establish a comprehensive dataset of 425 14 C dates from Ohio Hopewell sites and apply formal chronometric hygiene criteria to all dates. We then iteratively assess the temporal placement and span of the six most important Ohio Hopewell sites-the Hopewell Mound Group, Liberty, Mound City, Seip, Tremper, and Turner. A staged relaxation of hygiene criteria for our best three categories (Classes 1-3) permits alternate but generally consistent conclusions. As the first large-scale analyses of Ohio Hopewell temporality since the publication of IntCal20 (Reimer et al. 2020), the available data show a ritual complex that begins 90 or more years later than generally has been recognized circa 2010 14 C BP, or as Bayesian modeled, AD 90-120. Our analysis reveals site histories of differing spans, more late dates than early dates, and with most Hopewell activity ending across these sites circa 1640 14 C BP, or as Bayesian modeled, AD 395-430. An increased consideration of contingency in contemporary temporal reckoning increases the utility of the historical narratives that we as archaeologists can construct.
“Hopewell” refers to a distinct array of social and ideological relations that are seen in the mi... more “Hopewell” refers to a distinct array of social and ideological relations that are seen in the middle-range societies of the Midwest and South during the Woodland period ca. AD 1–400. Participating societies were regionally distinct, but many shared a common commitment to growing storable seed crops, a collective orientation toward protracted mortuary rituals, and a need to create and manipulate complex cultural landscapes. Hopewell also was characterized by the development of an expanded system of material symbols that employed images of overt cosmological reference. Participating groups were clearly linked on a variety of scales, but it was the shared importance of these symbols that has given Hopewell its enduring character.
American Antiquity, 1994
... MARK F. SEEMAN * Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 45220 American A... more ... MARK F. SEEMAN * Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 45220 American Antiquity, 59(2), 1994, pp. 273-288. Copyright ?) 1994 by the Society for American Archaeology 273 Page 2. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY ...
American Antiquity 78(3):407-432, Jul 2013
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2008
... Probable species for Late Pleistocene Ohio contexts are informed by community data from the H... more ... Probable species for Late Pleistocene Ohio contexts are informed by community data from the Hiscock locality, Genesee Co., New York (Steadman, 1988); Carter Bog locality, Darke Co., Ohio (McDonald, 1994), Big Boone Lick locality, Boone Co., Kentucky (Jillson, 1936 ...
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 1977
... Page 7. MI DDL E WOODLAND PIPE STYLES 53 from Wilson 6 is very similar stylistically to the v... more ... Page 7. MI DDL E WOODLAND PIPE STYLES 53 from Wilson 6 is very similar stylistically to the vessels from Havana 6 and Sctiafner 1, both of which are relatively early and should date to around AD 1 (Griffin 1970; Perino nd; Seeman unpublished research). ...
We describe and analyze blade production at a small site near the Turner Earthworks, Hamilton Cou... more We describe and analyze blade production at a small site near the Turner Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio. The Turner Workshop provides perhaps the largest sample of Ohio Hopewell (ca. A.D. 50-350) blades and blade-cores recovered from a single site to date. We focus on describing the production process at Turner and comparing our results with those from other Ohio Hopewell and non-Hopewell blade production sites. Special attention will be focused on rates of production errors, metric variability in final products, and the variability introduced into the production process by increases in distance-to-source and how these lines of evidence bear on the question of specialized production in middle-range societies. Our analysis reveals an industry characterized by a high frequency of errors, a high level of variability in final products, and a lack of standardization in reduction process. We therefore conclude that the Ohio Hopewell blade industry did not employ craft specialists.
Quaternary International, 2015
Reduction, recycling, and other changes that stone tools experienced during their use lives refle... more Reduction, recycling, and other changes that stone tools experienced during their use lives reflect design, circumstance and opportunity. The result is discarded artifacts whose sizes and shapes are plain to see and easy to measure. If we can infer their original size, we also can determine tools' degree of reduction from first use to that discard. The difference between original and discarded size reflects curation, which itself subsumes the concept and practice of recycling. Endscrapers are a common retouched-tool type both in North American Paleoindian and Old World Paleolithic assemblages. In this pilot study, we estimate degree of reduction in a sample of unifacial endscrapers from the Nobles Pond Paleoindian site in Ohio, USA. Also, we demonstrate how resulting curation measures can be fitted to the Weibull and other statistical models, not for the sake of mere mathematical virtuosity but to compare curation rate and implicate different failure processes between data sets. Compared to an experimental known, failure in Nobles Pond endscrapers is characterized by attrition, thus fits a Weibull model whose shape parameter b > 1. This result is useful for comparison between assemblages and for modeling how the record formed.
Southeastern Archaeology, 2015
As part of a larger project, Scale and Community in Hopewell Networks (SCHoN), we submitted a ser... more As part of a larger project, Scale and Community in Hopewell Networks (SCHoN), we submitted a series of 19 dates from seven Scioto Valley Hopewell sites. The larger project focuses on attribute analysis and source identification of copper, ceramic, and lithic artifacts. Our first batch of dates begin to shake up previous narratives on the arc of Hopewell history. Here we present raw measurements and calibrated dates with minimal commentary. Future work will delve into the meaning of these and another batch of dates yet to be submitted. We submitted our dates to the CAIS laboratory at the University of Georgia for AMS analysis.
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