1. Introduction: The Hopewellian assemblage and its social meaning
2. The community polity and the complementary heterarchical community : contrasting alternatives
3. The Ohio Hopewellian cult sodality heterarchy system and the Ohio Hopewellian ceremonial sphere
4. The sacred bundle and the symbolic pragmatic meaning of material culture : the transfer of Hopewellian ritual
5. The Hopewellian ceremonial sphere : deontic ecology and Hopewellian ritual and mortuary practices
6. Migrating bones, migrating people : funerary or postmortem sacrifical paradigms?
7. The Illinois-Havana Hopewellian mortuary mound clusters : current views
8. The Illinois-Havana Hopewellian cult sodality heterarchy system : the dual altar crypt model
9. The history-in-mounds scenario of the Elizabeth Mound cult sodality heterarchy : demonstrating the dual altar crypt model
10. The floodplain and bluff-top Hopewellian sites of the lower Illinois Valley : alternative modeling of the Hopewellian ceremonial sphere of western Illinois
11. The Mann phase and the Indiana (Mann) Hopewellian ceremonial sphere
12. The Kolomoki Site and the Swift Creek-Weeden Island ceremonial sphere
13. The dynamics of a ceremonial sphere collapse : the nature of the Middle Woodland-Late Woodland period transition.