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Edward Palmer's Arkansaw mounds [electronic resource] / edited by Marvin D. Jeter ; contributions by Ian W. Brown ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911.
- Standardized Title:
- Arkansaw mounds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Arkansas--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Mound-builders--Arkansas.
- Mound-builders.
- Mounds--Arkansas.
- Mounds.
- Arkansas--Antiquities.
- Arkansas.
- Arkansas--Description and travel.
- Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Mound Exploration Division--History.
- Smithsonian Institution.
- Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911--Travel--Arkansas.
- Palmer, Edward.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (451 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During the 1880's a massive scientific effort was launched by the Smithsonian Institution to discover who had built the prehistoric burial mounds found throughout the United States. Arkansaw Mounds tells the story of this exploration and of Edward Palmer, one of the nineteenth century's greatest natural historians and archaeologists, who was recruited to lead the research project. Arkansas was unusually rich in prehistoric remains, especially mounds, and became a major focus of the study. Palmer and his team of researchers discovered that the mounds had been built by the ancestors
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Contexts, personalities, and beginnings
- pt. 2. Palmer in Arkansas
- pt. 3. Results.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8334-4
- OCLC:
- 670411959
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