Ancestral mounds : vitality and volatility of Native America /

Ancestral Mounds deconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Two centuries of academic scholarship regarding mounds have examined who, what, where, when and how, but no serious investigations have addressed the basic question, why? Drawing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Miller, Jay, 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Mounds > Oklahoma. Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Antiquities. Ethnology > Oklahoma. Indians of North America > Funeral customs and rites > Oklahoma. Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Religion. Indians of North America > Oklahoma > Social life and customs. Community life > Oklahoma. Monuments > Social aspects > Oklahoma. Oklahoma > Antiquities. Oklahoma > Social life and customs. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Table of Contents:

Archaeological Time Frame
Kinship Codes
Graphic Codes
Mounding Up
Breaking Ground
SEeing Mounds
Modern Mounding
Mounds in Full.