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1 online resource (xv, 160 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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From Jefferson to Jamestown : Monacan history through English eyes -- Virginia burial mounds -- The bioarchaeology of middle range societies -- Bioarchaeological analysis : skeletal inventory, subsistence and health patterns, and mortuary activity -- From measurements to meaning : Monacan history through Monacan bones |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-155) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Monacan Indians -- Antiquities
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Mounds -- Virginia.
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Virginia
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Antiquities
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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Mounds
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Tumulus -- États-Unis -- Virginie (États-Unis)
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Restes humains (archéologie) -- États-Unis -- Virginie (États-Unis)
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Paléoindiens -- États-Unis -- Virginie (États-Unis)
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Virginia -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143756
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Virginia
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Virginie (États-Unis) -- Antiquités.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817384067 |
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0817384065 |
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0817314385 |
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9780817314385 |
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