Introduction: I had no idea! Competing claims to distinction at the Newark Earthworks / Lindsay Jones
Part I. The Newark Earthworks in the context of American and Ohio history
The Newark Earthworks past and present / Richard D. Shiels
Part II. The Newark Earthworks in the context of Hopewell archaeology and archaeoastronomy
The Newark Earthworks: a monumental engine of world renewal / Bradley T. Lepper
The Newark Earthworks: a grand unification of earth, sky, and mind / Ray Hively and Robert Horn
Part III. The Newark Earthworks in cross-cultural archaeological contexts: Nazca, Chaco, and Stonehenge
An Andeanist's perspective on the Newark Earthworks / Helaine Silverman
Hopewell and Chaco: the consequences of rituality / Stephen H. Lekson
Beyond Newark: prehistoric ceremonial centers and their cosmologies / Timothy Darvill
Part IV. The Newark Earthworks in interdisciplinary contexts: architectural history, cartography, and religious studies
The Newark Earthworks as "works" of architecture / John E. Hancock
The Newark Earthworks as a liminal place: a comparative analysis of Hopewell-period burial rituals and mounds with a particular emphasis on house symbolism / Thomas Barrie
The cartographic legacy of the Newark Earthworks / Margaret Wickens Pearce
The modern religiosity of the Newark Earthworks / Thomas S. Bremer
Part V. The Newark Earthworks in the context of indigenous rights and identity: American and international frames
Native (re)investments in Ohio: evictions, earthworks preservation, and tribal stewardship / Marti L. Chaatsmith
Whose earthworks? Newark and indigenous people / Mary N. MacDonald
Part VI. The Newark Earthworks in the context of law and jurisprudence: ancient and ongoing possibilities
The peoples belong to the land: contemporary stewards for the Newark Earthworks / Duane Champagne and Carole Goldberg
Caring for depressed cultural sites, Hawaiian style / Greg Johnson
Imagining "law-stuff" at the Newark Earthworks / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.