The Moundbuilders : ancient peoples of eastern North America
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The Moundbuilders : ancient peoples of eastern North America
(Ancient peoples and places, v. 110)
Thames & Hudson, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-218) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An account of the achievements of the Moundbuilders of America designed for the general reader and student. Variously attributed to the Phoenicians, Vikings - even the ten lost tribes of Israel, in fact the curious mounds were built by the Native Americans themselves.
Table of Contents
- A heavily forested and thinly peopled land
- mobile hunter-gatherers
- sedentary hunter-gatherers - Middle- to Late-Archaic
- builders of burial mounds and earthworks - Early to Middle Woodland
- villagers facing great change - Late Woodland
- chiefs come to power - Mississippian
- northern villagers - Late Prehistory
- a trail of tears - Native American and European contact - guide to Eastern Woodland sites.
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