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Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy
by Joffre Lanning Coe. 368 pgs.

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Written for visitors as well as for scholars, this book provides an overview of the site and the archaeological techniques pioneered there, surveys the history of the excavations, and features more than 200 photographs and maps. The book carefully reconstructs the archaeological record, including plant and animal remains, pottery sherds, stone tools, and clay ornaments. In a concluding interpretive section, Coe reflects on what Town Creek and its artifacts tell us about this ancient Native American society.

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To Sally

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Some Names and Abbreviations

Part 1: Introduction

1: History

2: A Fifty-Year Program, 1937-1987

Part 2: Excavations

Part 3: Natural Resources

6: Stone Available and Used

7: Plant Resources

8: Animal Remains

Part 4: Arts, Crafts, Tools, and Weapons

9: Pottery

11: Pipes, Ornaments, and Implements

Part 5: Interpretations

12: The People of Town Creek

13: Mortuaries and Burial Practices

14: Reconstruction of the Town House on the Mound

15: Town Creek, 1937-1987

Appendix 1 / Early Records of Excavations

Bibliography

Index
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Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands
by Robert C. Mainfort Jr., Lynne P. Sullivan. 292 pgs.

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Figures

Tables

Foreword

Preface

Chapter I Explaining Earthen Enclosures

Chapter 2 Broken Circles, Owl Monsters, and Black Earth Midden: Separating Sacred and Secular at Poverty Point

Chapter 3 Prehistoric Enclosures in Louisiana and the Marksville Site

Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 4 Defining Space: An Overview of the Pinson Mounds Enclosure

Conclusions: Planning and Design

Chapter 5: Boundaries, Resistance, and Control Enclosing the Hilltops in Middle Woodland Ohio

Chapter 6 Architectural Grammar Rules at the Fort Ancient Hilltop Enclosure

Conclusion

Chapter 7 the Archaeology of the Newark Earthworks

Chapter 8 is the Newark Circle-Octagon the Ohio Hopewell "Rosetta Stone"? a Question of Archaeological Interpretation

Chapter 9 Defensive or Sacared? an Early Late Woodland Enclosure in Northeast Ohio

Summary

Chapter 10 the Socioeconomic Role of Late Woodland Enclosures in Northern Lower Michigan

Notes

Chapter 11 Fortified Village or Mortuary Site? Exploring the Use of the Ripley Site

Conclusion

References Cited

Contributors

Index
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From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites (Chap. Nine "The Moundbuilders of Eastern North America")
by Brian Fagan. 403 pgs.

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A prominent archaeologist uses the latest scientific techniques to interpret the spiritual lives of ancient people
Until Recently, Archaeology Was Concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science can now take us beyond the artifacts -- into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship, and ritual sacrifice. From the Nile's black land to the Aztec's world of the Fifth Sun, from Stonehenge to Jericho, Fagan describes how Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Geographic Information Systems, Computer Automated Design-mapping and other sophisticated scientific methods are helping us to decode the religious and spiritual beliefs of our forebears. This new "archaeology of the mind" blends a wealth of scientific disciplines -- from botany, zoology, and geology to neuropsychology, palynology, and nuclear physics. With vivid imagery and a transporting voice, Fagan revolutionizes our understanding of the inner lives of ancient people.

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From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites

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Preface

From Black Land to Fifth Sun

Chapter One: The Archaeology of the Intangible

Chapter Two: Dark Caves, Obscure Visions

Chapter Three: San Artists in Southern Africa

Chapter Four: Fertility and Death

Chapter Five: Power and the Ancestors

Chapter Six: Avebury: Landscapes of the Ancestors

Chapter Seven: Stonehenge and the Idea of Time

Chapter Eight: Two Livings: Agriculture and Religion

Chapter Nine: The Moundbuilders of Eastern North America

Chapter Ten: The Bull beneath the Earth

Chapter Eleven: A Shrine at Phylakopi

Chapter Twelve: Divine Kings along the Nile

Chapter Thirteen: Xunantunich: "The Maiden of the Rock"

Chapter Fourteen: The World of the Fifth Sun

Epilogue

Guide to Further Reading

References

Index
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Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth
by Robert Silverberg. 386 pgs.

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I: The Discovery of the Mounds

2: The Making of the Myth

3: The Triumph of the Myth

4: The Great Debate

5: The Deflation of the Myth

6: The Honored Dead: Adena and Hopewell

7: The Temple Mound People

Sources of Quoted Material

Bibliography

Index
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Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast (Chap. 14 "Southeastern Archaic Mounds")
by Kenneth E. Sassaman, David G. Anderson. 390 pgs.

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Series Editor's Foreword

Preface

Section I Mid-Holocene Environments

1: Geoarchaeoloqy and the Mid-Holocene Landscape History of the Greater Southeast

Summary and Conclusions

2: Mid-Holocene Forest History of Florida and the Coastal Plain of Georqia and South Carolina

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Section II Technology

3: Changing Strategies of Lithic Technological Organization

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

4: Technological Innovations in Economic and Social Contexts

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

5: Middle and Late Archaic Architecture

Conclusion

Section III Subsistence and Health

6: The Paleoethnobotanical Record for the Mid-Holocene Southeast

7: Mid-Holocene Faunal Exploitation in the Southeastern United States

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

8: Biocultural Inquiry into Archaic Period Populations of the Southeast Trauma and Occupational Stress

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Section IV Regional Settlement Variation

9: Approaches to Modeling Regional Settlement in the Archaic Period Southeast

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

10: Southeastern Mid-Holocene Coastal Settlements

11: Accounting for Submerqed Mid-Holocene Archaeological Sites in the Southeast: A Case Study from the Chesapeake Bay Estuary, Virginia

Section V Regional Integration and Organization

12: The Emergence of Long-Distance Exchange Networks in the Southeastern United States

Summary and Conclusions

13: A Consideration of the Social Organization of the Shell Mound Archaic

14: Southeastern Archaic Mounds

15: Poverty Point and Greater Southeastern Prehistory the Culture That Did Not Fit

References Cited

Contributors

Index

Florida Museum of Natural History the Ripley P. Bullen Series Jerald T. Milanich, General Editor
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American Science in the Age of Jefferson ("The Mystery of the Mound Builders" begins on p. 343)
by John C. Greene. 484 pgs.

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Preface

1 The American Context

2 The Philadelphia Pattern

3 Scientific Centers in New England

4 Science Along the Hudson

5 Outposts of Science In the South and West

6 From Newton to Laplace In American Astronomy

7 The Chemical Revolution Comes to America

8 American Geography

9 From the Theory of The Earth to Earth Science

10 Natural History in A New World: Botany

11 Natural History in a New World: Zoology and Paleontology

12 The Sciences of Man: Physical Anthropology

13 The Sciences of Man: Archaeology

14 The Sciences of Man: Comparative Linguistics and The Problem of Indian Origins

15 The End of the Jeffersonian Era

Notes

Index
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Uncovering the Past: A History of Archaeology ("The Mysterious Mound-Builders" begins on p. 170)
by William H. Stiebing Jr. 324 pgs.

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Stiebing highlights the exploits of colorful, dynamic excavators from the "Heroic Age" in an entertaining, informative account.

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Introduction

Part I

1: The Discovery of Prehistory

2: Retrieving Egypt's Distant Past

3: The Rediscovery of Near Eastern Civilizations

4: The Growth of Aegean Archaeology

5: Recovering the Remains of Ancient Italy

6: Unearthing the New World's Past

7: Archaeology in the Far East and Sub-Saharan Africa

8: Reclaiming Sunken History

Part II: Modern Archaeology

9: Systematizing and Organizing the Past (1925-1960)

10: Toward a Scientific Archaeology (1960-Present)

Appendix: Major Events and Discoveries in the History of Archaeology

Recommended Reading

Index
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Revisiting the Mound-Builder Controversy, in History Today
by Thomas S. Garlinghouse. 7 pgs.

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