Author

Publication

2019 - Louisiana State University Press

Language

English

Word Count

50,000 words, Guess

Page Count

200 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCE78.M75G53 2020

Description

"In the decades since the recognition of Archaic mounds in the Lower Mississippi Valley, archaeologists have proposed many different, and often opposing, interpretations of their meaning: physical, social, residential, and sacred uses are among the field's top explanations, but these are far from the only proposed answers to the question of why the mounds were built. The culmination of over fifty years of research and study, Archaic Earthworks of the Lower Mississippi Valley is Jon L. Gibson's attempt to unpack the best explanations for these earthworks and the peoples who made them"--

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