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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: Susan L. Woodward
Publisher: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indian mounds of the middle Ohio Valley : a guide to mounds and earthworks of the Adena, Hopewell, Cole, and Fort Ancient people.
Author: Susan L. Woodward
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Mounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric American Indian culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North America. Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley is a guide to the extant, publicly accessible mounds and earthworks built by the Adena and Hopewell Indians between 3,000 and 1,500 years ago. This book also reviews the chronology, geography, and culture of these two mound building groups, and the fate of their mounds during the historic period. Sources of additional information about the Adena and Hopewell, and the sites described in this book are provided."--Back cover
Author: William Snyder Webb
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780870495687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: New York Graphic Society
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides an introduction to the ancient Indian mound builders of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys.
Author: Robert C. Daniels
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1467054283
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The true story of U.S. Marine Edmond Babler who was forced to surrender during the early days of the U.S. involvement in World War II when the fortress Island of Corregidor fell to the Japanese. ... this manuscript, transcribed from his own narrative, is Ed's story from the time he joined the Marine Corps until his return from 1,220 days of brutal captivity in Japanese prisoner of war camps."--Back cover.
Author: Ohio Archaeological Council
Publisher: Ohio Archaeological
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William S. Dancey
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2002-10
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780873387699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The great earthen mounds of southern Ohio have attracted archaelogical attention since the first half of the nineteenth century. Until now, little has been known of the social organization of the Native Americans who constructed these spectacular ceremonial monuments. In the early 1960s, Olaf Prufer argued that the Ohio Hopewell societies who built the mounds that characterize the Middle Woodland Period (200 B.C. to A.D. 400) lived in a small, scattered hamlets. Prufer's thesis was evaluated at the symposium "Testing the Prufer Model of Ohio Hopewell Settlement Pattern" at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Pittsburgh, April 10, 1992. Several of those essays and others, including two by Professor Prufer, are included in Ohio Hopewell Community Organization. Within the last decade, more than 100 instances of Middle Woodland domestic sites have been documented. The authors examine plant and animal remains, ceramic and stone fragments, and traces of structures and facilities recovered through survey and excavation. The essays illustrate many of the controversies revolving around scientific study of the Hopewellian lifeway. In an Afterword, James B. Griffin shows that the problem of Hopewellian settlement pattern has deep intellectual roots, and its solution will be significant not only for the Ohio Valley but for world prehistory as well. While the volume holds obvious interest for professional archaeologists, it will also appeal to amateur archaeologists and visitors to prehistoric sites and museums.
Author: Susan C. Power
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780820325019
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Early Art of the Southeastern Indians is a visual journey through time, highlighting some of the most skillfully created art in native North America. The remarkable objects described and pictured here, many in full color, reveal the hands of master artists who developed lapidary and weaving traditions, established centers for production of shell and copper objects, and created the first ceramics in North America. Presenting artifacts originating in the Archaic through the Mississippian periods--from thousands of years ago through A.D. 1600--Susan C. Power introduces us to an extraordinary assortment of ceremonial and functional objects, including pipes, vessels, figurines, and much more. Drawn from every corner of the Southeast--from Louisiana to the Ohio River valley, from Florida to Oklahoma--the pieces chronicle the emergence of new media and the mastery of new techniques as they offer clues to their creators’ widening awareness of their physical and spiritual worlds. The most complex works, writes Power, were linked to male (and sometimes female) leaders. Wearing bold ensembles consisting of symbolic colors, sacred media, and richly complex designs, the leaders controlled large ceremonial centers that were noteworthy in regional art history, such as Etowah, Georgia; Spiro, Oklahoma; Cahokia, Illinois; and Moundville, Alabama. Many objects were used locally; others circulated to distant locales. Power comments on the widening of artists’ subjects, starting with animals and insects, moving to humans, then culminating in supernatural combinations of both, and she discusses how a piece’s artistic “language” could function as a visual shorthand in local style and expression, yet embody an iconography of regional proportions. The remarkable achievements of these southeastern artists delight the senses and engage the mind while giving a brief glimpse into the rich, symbolic world of feathered serpents and winged beings.
