The Adena People
Author: William Snyder Webb
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780870495687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Snyder Webb
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780870495687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Greg Roza
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2004-12-15
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781404228740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the lives and fates of several midwestern mound-building Native American tribes.
Author: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1615353658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rich with photos, maps, and sidebars, Native Peoples of the Americas covers native peoples from the past and present. Readers will learn about early civilizations, languages, religions, arts, and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States, Canada, and Middle and South America
Author: Walter C. Fleming
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780028644691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines the beliefs, customs, legends and the myriad contributions Native Americans have given to modern society, and details the often tragic history of their conquest by European invaders, their treatment-both historical and recent-under the U.S. government, and the harsh reality of life on today's reservations.
Author: Robert A. Birmingham
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2017-10-04
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0299313646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More mounds were built by ancient Native Americans in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America—between 15,000 and 20,000, at least 4,000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy mounds, huge earthworks sculpted in the shapes of thunderbirds, water panthers, and other forms, not found anywhere else in the world in such concentrations. This second edition is updated throughout, incorporating exciting new research and satellite imagery. Written for general readers, it offers a comprehensive overview of these intriguing earthworks. Citing evidence from past excavations, ethnography, the traditions of present-day Native Americans in the Midwest, ground-penetrating radar and LIDAR imaging, and recent findings of other archaeologists, Robert A. Birmingham and Amy L. Rosebrough argue that effigy mound groups are cosmological maps that model belief systems and relations with the spirit world. The authors advocate for their preservation and emphasize that Native peoples consider the mounds sacred places. This edition also includes an expanded list of public parks and preserves where mounds can be respectfully viewed, such as the Kingsley Bend mounds near Wisconsin Dells, an outstanding effigy group maintained by the Ho-Chunk Nation, and the Man Mound Park near Baraboo, the only extant human-shaped effigy mound in the world.
Author: Don W. Dragoo
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Mounds for the Dead was first published in 19063, it was the definitive study of the Adena culture, a burial-cult manifestation in the middle and upper Ohio Valley dating from about 1000 B.C. to 100 B.C. The work built upon hundreds of earlier articles as well as two major syntheses, The Adena People by Webb and Snow (1945) and The Adena People Number Two by Webb and Baby (1957). Now in its third printing Mounds for the Dead has become a classic; it is a must for anyone interested in the Adena people. Dragoo's analysis of the Adena culture opens with a site report of the Cresap Mound, Marshall County, West Virginia, which he excavated in 1958. This virtually intact prehistoric structure represented two periods of interment and contained artifacts associated with 54 burials. Following his description of the Cresap Mound excavations, Dragoo examines manifestations of the Adena burial-mound culture and discusses the origins of the Adena people, the development of their culture, and its relationship to other groups.