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Gathering Hopewell
Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two thousand years ago, their elaborately embellished works of art made of glistening metals and stones from faraway places, and their highly formalized mortuaries. In this book, twenty-one researchers in interwoven efforts immerse themselves and the reader in this vibrant archaeological record in order to richly reconstruct the societies, rituals, and ritual interactions of Hopewellian peoples. By finding the faces, actions, and motivations of Hopewellian peoples as individuals who constructed knowable...
Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA
The first comprehensive critical analysis of the practices and consequences of ancient DNA research. This edited collection, Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA, presents a critical enquiry into the much-hyped “ancient DNA revolution” in archaeology. Offering the first comprehensive and in-depth scholarly analysis of the practices and effects of archaeogenetics, editors Daniel Strand, Anna Källén, and Charlotte Mulcare, along with other renowned scholars from Europe and the United States, address a host of questions, such as: What happens with our understanding of the past when archaeology is married to genetic science? What cultural forms and historical narratives are generated by an...
Hopis and the Counterculture
This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the explosive appropriation of Indigenous identities in the 1960s. It reveals a largely unknown network of Native, non-Indian, and neo-Indian actors who spread misrepresentations of the Hopi that they created through interactions with the Hopi Traditionalist faction of the 1940s through 1980s. Significantly, many non-Hopis involved adopted Indian identities during this time, becoming “neo-Indians.” Exploring the new social field that developed to spread these ideas, Hopis and the Counterculture meticulously traces the trajectories of figures such as Ammon...
Generational Mapping Through Phases
In Generational Mapping Through Phases: Bridging Ancient Civilizations, U.S., and Ancestral Pueblo History (Complete Three-Volume Edition), the author presents a novel approach to understanding history through the lens of generational mapping, which reveals distinct phases. This comprehensive work explores the rise, transformation, and legacy of six important historical traditions: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient Rome, Medieval-Modern Europe, U.S. History, and the history of the Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest. Divided into three volumes, the series introduces the theory that ancient civilizations, U.S. history, and Indigenous histories—long viewed through static ...
Footprints of Hopi History
This book demonstrates how one tribe has significantly advanced knowledge about its past through collaboration with anthropologists and historians--Provided by publisher.
Story and Stone II: Paired Literary & Anthropological Visions
Story & Stone II — Paired Literary & Anthropological Visions Pairs Servants of the Flower World (Books III–V): Fight for This World, Underworld & the Return with A Rosetta Key for Ancestral Pueblo History. In the epic, the struggle to defend a mountain pass, a descent through cavernous underworlds, and a return to the Great House unfold across mesas and canyon walls—stone as ground and dwelling. The companion presents a generational history of the Pueblo world—canyons and mesas, great houses and kivas, sacred turquoise—placing story alongside lived places and time-depth. Presented wholecloth and in dialogue, the two works can be read in either order, inviting readers to explore how a resonance with the Southwestern landscape and cosmology can help inspire a mythic story.
Astronomical Pulses to History’s Phases
Bringing together seven volumes of research, Michael A. Susko presents a grand synthesis of astronomical, biological, and cultural evolution. Using a logarithmic model, he shows how the universe has unfolded in accelerating pulses — from galaxies and planets to the rise of life and symbolic humanity. This rhythm of time is then extended through the Neolithic tells and into recorded history, where generational phases reveal cultures growing and transforming in their own natural cycles. Three distinct measures of time — logarithmic pulses, triadic generational units, and fifteen-year historical generations — converge to reveal a patterned fabric of change. Across billions of years and into the present moment, the author demonstrates how time is not a smooth line but a structured unfolding, marked by phases of complexity, consciousness, and cultural renewal. The result is both a sweeping map of our past and a reflection on the nature of time itself — its rhythms, its surprises, and its promise of transformations yet to come.
The Orayvi Split: Structure and history
The split of Orayvi, the largest Hopi town, in 1906, continues to resonate as a profound event in Puebloan cultural history, exemplary for anthropological explanations of fission in small-scale, kin-based human societies. Multiple hypotheses have been offered (sociological, materialist, ideological, and agential), each pointing to alternative, often mutually exclusive, causes. But effective analysis of the split crucially depends upon accurate data and apposite conceptual tools. The received picture of Orayvi, both empirically and analytically, is seriously flawed, notably owing to neglect of the archival record. With particular attention to demography, social forms, and material conditions,...
