Aboriginal Remains of the Piedmont and Valley Region of Virginia
Author: Gerard Fowke
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 422
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Author: Gerard Fowke
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Debra L. Gold
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2004-12-26
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0817351442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA long-ignored prehistoric mound building 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 Woodlands. Based on osteological examinations of dozens of complete skeletons and thousands of isolated bones and bone fragments, this work constructs information on Monacan demography, diet, health, and mortuary ritual in the 10th through the 15th centuries. The results show an overall pattern of stability and local autonomy among the Late Woodland village societies of interior Virginia in which a mixture of maize farming and the collection of wild food resources were successful for more than 600 years. This book—uniting biological and cultural aspects of the data for a holistic understanding of everyday life in the period—will be of interest to ethnohistorians, osteologists, bioarchaeologists, and anyone studying Late Woodland, Mississippian, and contact periods, as well as middle range societies, in the Eastern Woodlands.
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 512
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 526
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 1158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 510
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 524
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 666
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781931707466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University of Pennsylvania Museum library and portraits of individual authors represented in the Brinton Library."--BOOK JACKET.