The Mound Builders
Author : John Patterson MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Butler County (Ohio)
ISBN :
Author : John Patterson MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Butler County (Ohio)
ISBN :
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 1986-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821443828
In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the speculation surrounding these monuments and the scientific excavations which uncovered the history and culture of the ancient Americans who built them. The mounds were constructed for religious and secular purposes some time between 1000 B.C. and 1000 A.D., and they have prompted curiosity and speculation from very early times. European settlers found them evidence of some ancient and glorious people. Even as eminent an American as Thomas Jefferson joined the controversy, though his conclusions—that the mounds were actually cemeteries of ancient Indians—remained unpopular for nearly a century. Only in the late 19th century, as Smithsonian Institution investigators developed careful methodologies and reliable records, did the period of scientific investigation of the mounds and their builders begin. Silverberg follows these excavations and then recounts the story they revealed of the origins, development, and demise of the mound builder culture.
Author : Gerard Fowke
Publisher :
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 1902
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher : Chicago : [s.n.]
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Mound-builders
ISBN :
Author : H. C. Shetrone
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
As stated in the title, this book is primarily intended to guide the readers into understanding a famous prehistoric archaeological site called the Great Serpent Mound, located in Ohio, United States. The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot-long (411 m), three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound. It is named that way because when seen from an aerial view, the effigy mounds are shaped like a large snake.
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1986-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821408391
In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the speculation surrounding these monuments and the scientific excavations which uncovered the history and culture of the ancient Americans who built them. The mounds were constructed for religious and secular purposes some time between 1000 B.C. and 1000 A.D., and they have prompted curiosity and speculation from very early times. European settlers found them evidence of some ancient and glorious people. Even as eminent an American as Thomas Jefferson joined the controversy, though his conclusions—that the mounds were actually cemeteries of ancient Indians—remained unpopular for nearly a century. Only in the late 19th century, as Smithsonian Institution investigators developed careful methodologies and reliable records, did the period of scientific investigation of the mounds and their builders begin. Silverberg follows these excavations and then recounts the story they revealed of the origins, development, and demise of the mound builder culture.
Author : Manning Ferguson Force
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : GERARD. FOWKE
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033240694
Author : John Patterson MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Butler County (Ohio)
ISBN :
Author : J. P. MacLean
Publisher : Hayriver Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Butler County
ISBN : 9780977831616