University of Wisconsin-Madison ArboretumFawn. L.University of Wisconsin-Madison ArboretumEcological RestorationYoungBear-Tibbetts, Fawn. ―Native American Burial Mounds: Living Landscapes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.‖ Ecological Restoration 27.3 (2009): 254-256. Academic Search Premier...
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 71; The Smithsonian Institution; Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi; David Bushnell; 1920; p. 17: "As early as 1720 some English traders saw a large heap of stones on the ‘east side of the Westenhook or Housatonic Rover, so...
Archaeological studies of Native American societies in the Chesapeake have recently incorporated a broader range of interpretive frames, including those that emphasize historical contingency and social interaction rather than cultural ecology and cultural materialism. New evidence of Woodland-period population m...
The art of the Olmec, which emerged during the preclassic period along the Gulf of Mexico, was the first major Mesoamerican art. Across the swampy coastal areas of the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco, the Olmec constructed ceremonial centers on raised earth mounds. These centers w...
Native American - Tribes, Culture, History: Outside of the Southwest, Northern America’s early agriculturists are typically referred to as Woodland cultures. This archaeological designation is often mistakenly conflated with the eco-cultural delineation
Classic surveys of the native peoples of North America includeEdward S. Curtis,The North American Indian, 20 vol. (1907–30, reissued 1978);Clark Wissler,The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World(1917, reprinted 2005);A.L. Kroeber,Cultural and Natural Areas of...
CultureHistoryThe Author Peggy Leyva Conley takes the reader into the History of Sumner County, Tennessee - Prehistoric Indian Mounds and Native American History. This includoi:10.2139/ssrn.2366713Peggy Leyva ConleySocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Native American art - Midwest, Plains, Culture: The existence of rich textile art in the prehistoric Middle West is known, but its range and development are lost in hundreds of years of history from which few examples survive. Examples of basketry and wo
Native American art - Ritual, Ceremony, Symbolism: Many American Indian art objects are basically intended to perform a service—for example, to act as a container or to provide a means of worship. The particular utilitarian form that Native American art