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The Mound-Builders (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
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The Mound-Builders (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Series: Classics in Southeastern Archaeology
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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."
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