| Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Jeter, Marvin D. (Editor), Jeter, Marvin D. (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0817356126 ISBN-13: 9780817356125 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | United States - State & Local - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 976.701 |
| LCCN: 2009036278 |
| Series: Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.9" W x 10" (1.89 lbs) 444 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4During the 1880s a massive scientific effort was launched by the Smithsonian Institution to discover who had built the prehistoric burial mounds found throughout the United States. Arkansaw Mounds tells the story of this exploration and of Edward Palmer, one of the nineteenth century's greatest natural historians and archaeologists, who was recruited to lead the research project. Arkansas was unusually rich in prehistoric remains, especially mounds, and became a major focus of the study. Palmer and his team of researchers discovered that the mounds had been built by the ancestors of the historic North American Indians, shattering the then-popular theory that a lost non-Indian race had built them. |