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The bioarchaeology of Virginia burial mounds /
A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds-reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet-marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape, having be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds-reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet-marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape, having been removed over the centuries by a variety of natural and cultural causes. This study uses what remains of the mounds-excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s- to gain a new understanding of the Monacans and to gauge their importance in the realm of the late prehistoric period in the Eastern Woodlan. |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 160 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-155) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817384067 0817384065 0817314385 9780817314385 |