Early Hopewell mound explorations : the first fifty years in the Illinois River valley / edited with an introductory essay by Kenneth B. Farnsworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Farnsworth, Kenneth B.

Series:

Studies in archaeology (Urbana, Ill.) ; no. 3.

Studies in archaeology ; no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mounds.

Hopewell culture.

Illinois River Valley (Ill.)--Antiquities.

Illinois River Valley (Ill.).

Illinois--Illinois River Valley.

Hopewell culture--Illinois--Illinois River Valley.

Mounds--Illinois--Illinois River Valley.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Illinois--Illinois River Valley.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xxi, 601 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois, [2004]

Summary:

"Between 1878 and 1928, the first serious archaeological attempts to understand the rise of Hopewellian culture in Illinois were focused on excavation of burial mounds and documentation of grave artifacts and mortuary ritual. This volume assembles and reprints all 15 of the published seminal pioneer archaeological studies of this era and for the first time publishes two important never-before-seen pioneer mound excavation manuscripts. The volume's reprint section is anchored by four reports documenting Warren K. Moorehead's University of Illinois excavations at 22 mound groups in the region during 1927 and 1928. The volume's title essay, by Kenneth B. Farnsworth, is a substantial historical introduction to the pioneer archaeology of the era and the assembled pioneer Hopewellian studies. Farnsworth's essay incorporates 32 previously unseen maps and photographs of the region's pioneer archaeologists, their excavations, and some of the first recovered Illinois Valley Hopewellian artifacts. The essay discusses and maps 48 regional mound groups and incorporates unpublished data and correspondence culled from the archives of the University of Illinois, the Illinois State Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, the Smithsonian Institution, and elsewhere to document and interpret the history of the earliest regional Hopewellian excavations by Warren K. Moorehead and J. L. B. Taylor, John Francis Snyder, John G. Henderson, William McAdams, David I. Bushnell, Gerard Fowke, James Middleton, Col. P. W. Norris, and others" -- From the publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

1930487118

9781930487116

OCLC:

54372010