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The Bioarchaeology of Virginia Burial Mounds
Debra L. Gold
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Paperback. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds - reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet - marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. This study uses what remains of the mounds - excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s - to gain a new understanding of the Monacans. Num Pages: 160 pages, b/w figs, tbs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3H; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 299.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817351441
SKU
V9780817351441
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Reviews for The Bioarchaeology of Virginia Burial Mounds
With the eyes of Sherlock Holmes, Gold takes both scraps of historical information and, more important, fragments of skeletal remains and constructs the late prehistory of the mysterious and overlooked Monacans of western Virginia. Her work is extremely valuable to the fields of bioarchaeology and history.; - Keith P. Jacobi, author of Last Rites of the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring ... Read more