Covers the entire prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands and the thousands of earthen mounds that can be found there, built between 3100 BCE and 1600 CE. The second edition of The Moundbuilders has been brought fully up-to-date, with the latest research on the peopling of the Americas, including more coverage of pre-Clovis groups, new material on Native American communities in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries CE, and new narratives of migration drawn from ancient and modern DNA.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. A Heavily Forested and Thinly Peopled Land -- The Eastern Woodlands -- Doing Archaeology -- Box feature: "Preserve these beautiful eminences" -- 2. Mobile Huntet-Gatherers: Paleoindian and Early Archaic -- Beringia -- By Land or by Sea -- Early Hunter-Gatherers -- Box feature: Population Growth -- Mobile Early Archaic Foragers -- 3. Sedentary Hunter-Gatherers: Middle to Late Archaic -- Tools and Containers -- Camps and Middens -- Life's Roles -- Growing Native Plants -- Alliances and Antagonisms -- Early Mounds -- Box feature: Poverty Point -- A Time of Change -- 4. Builders of Burial Mounds and Earthworks: Early to Middle Woodland.
