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Author(s): Henry Shetrone, Bradley T. Lepper (introduction)
ISBN(s): 9780817384296, 0817384294
Edition: New introduction
File Details: PDF, 31.44 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0817384294

ISBN 13: 9780817384296

Author: Henry Clyde Shetrone, Bradley T. Lepper

With this accessible volume, Henry Clyde Shetrone made available to general readers the archaeological research data and conclusions concerning the ancient mounds and earthworks that dot the landscape of eastern North America. Dismissing popularly held theories of mysterious giants who built these structures, he explained that their purposes were defensive and ceremonial, that they had been used for habitation, burial, and worship. Their builders were antecedents of the native peoples of present-day America and had been skilled artisans and engineers with successful agricultural practices and structured leadership.

Twenty chapters discuss aspects of mound-builder cultures: quarrying of flint and obsidian for knapping into points; mining of copper and iron and its fashioning into tools and ceremonial objects; spinning and weaving materials and methods; smoking customs; carving of calumets and their use in ceremony; freshwater pearls and other items for body ornamentation; and the use of stone burial vaults, cremation basins, and concepts of an afterlife. Data is presented from excavations ranging broadly from Massachusetts to Florida and from Texas to North Dakota.

As Bradley Lepper points out in his new introduction, “The Mound-Builders is a testament to Shetrone’s success at working towards ‘correlation and systematization’ of data, as well as public education. . . . Shetrone was no armchair popularizer. His work was based on years of excavation and first-hand familiarity with much of the data. His popularizations [still] echo with the ring of the shovel and trowel in gravelly soil.”

Table of contents:

CHAPTER I EARLY THEORIES AS TO ORIGIN AND IDENTITY

CHAPTER II DISTRIBUTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE MOUNDS

CHAPTER III ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING

CHAPTER IV AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND INDUSTRY

CHAPTER V THE MOUND-BUILDER BURIAL COMPLEX

CHAPTER VI THE MOUND-BUILDER AS AN ARTIST

CHAPTER VII TOBACCO PIPES AND SMOKING CUSTOMS

CHAPTER VIII THE OHIO AREA: I, ADENA AND FORT ANCIENT CULTURES

CHAPTER IX THE OHIO AREA: II, THE HOPEWELL CULTURE

CHAPTER X THE OHIO AREA: III, FORTIFICATIONS AND EFFIGY MOUNDS

CHAPTER XI THE OHIO AREA: IV, MARGINAL SUBAREAS

CHAPTER XII A TOUR OF THE OHIO MOUND AREA

CHAPTER XIII THE GREAT LAKES AREA

CHAPTER XIV THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI AREA: I, WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA, AND THE DAKOTAS

CHAPTER XV THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI AREA: II, NORTHERN ILLINOIS, IOWA, AND MARGINAL DISTRICTS

CHAPTER XVI THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI AREA: I, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, WESTERN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE, SOUTHERN MISSOURI, AND ARKANSAS

CHAPTER XVII THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI AREA: II, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AND ALABAMA

CHAPTER XVIII THE TENNESSEE-CUMBERLAND AREA

CHAPTER XIX THE PENNSYLVANIA AREA

CHAPTER XX SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

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