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Archeology of the funeral mound, Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia / Charles H. Fairbanks ; introduction by Frank M. Setzler ; with a new introduction by Mark Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairbanks, Charles H. (Charles Herron), 1913-1985.
- Series:
- Classics in southeastern archaeology.
- Classics in southeastern archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Georgia--Ocmulgee National Monument--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Georgia--Ocmulgee National Monument.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Mounds--Georgia--Ocmulgee National Monument.
- Mounds.
- Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park (Ga.)--Antiquities.
- Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park (Ga.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (121 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication A premier mound site offers a wealth of primary data on mortuary practices in the Mississippian Period. The largest prehistoric mound site in Georgia is located in modern-day Macon and is known as Ocmulgee. It was first recorded in August 1739 by General James Oglethorpe's rangers during an expedition to the territory of the Lower Creeks. The botanist William Bartram wrote extensively of the ecology of the area during his visit in 1773, but the 1873 volume by Charles C. Jones, Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particul
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction to the 2003 Edition; Preface to the 1954 Dissertation; Introduction to the Second Printing, 1980; Archeology of the Funeral Mound, Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia [1956]; Introduction; The Setting; The Background; Excavations at the Funeral Mound; Analysis; Summary of Life on the Macon Plateau; Bibliography; Appendixes; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: Washington : National Park Service, 1956, in series Archeological research series ; no. 3.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8405-7
- OCLC:
- 650060107
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