The Moundbuilders : ancient peoples of eastern North America / George R. Milner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milner, George R., 1953-

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woodland Indians--Antiquities.

Woodland Indians.

Woodland Indians--History.

Woodland Indians--Social life and customs.

Mounds.

Antiquities.

History.

East (U.S.)--Antiquities.

East (U.S.).

Canada, Eastern--Antiquities.

Canada, Eastern.

Mounds--East (U.S.).

Mounds--Canada, Eastern.

Eastern Canada.

East United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2005.

Summary:

"Nineteenth-century explorers of the American continent were amazed to find great earthen monuments in the Eastern Woodlands. Thousands of these mounds were discovered in the plains and forests - one 100 feet high, some containing thousands of burials, and many shaped to resemble sacred beasts. Speculation was rife as to the identity of these moundbuilders. Research over the last century demonstrates conclusively that the mounds were in fact erected by the Native Americans themselves, and this wide-ranging and copiously illustrated book is the first to bring all the evidence together. Many of the most impressive mounds, such as Poverty Point, Cahokia, and Moundville, are described and discussed in detail. Complete with a gazetteer of sites to visit, this will be the perfect guide to the region for the archaeologist, student, tourist, and traveler. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Contents:

1. A heavily forested and thinly peopled land

2. Mobile hunter-gatherers: Paleoindian and Early Archaic

3. Sedentary hunter-gatherers: Middle to Late Archaic

4. Builders of burial mounds and earthworks: Early to Middle Woodland

5. Villagers facing great change: Late Woodland

6. Chiefs come to power: Mississippian

7. Northern villagers: Late Prehistory

8. A trail of tears: Native American and European contact.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0500284687

9780500284681

OCLC:

61111387