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Author | : Diane Young Holliday |
Publisher | : Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0870203762 |
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Introduces young readers to Wisconsin's prehistoric and historic past, including the glacial times of the Paleo-Indians, Woodland era cultures, and French, British, and American settlers.
Author | : Charles Edward Brown |
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Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Robert A. Birmingham |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2017-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299313646 |
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More mounds were built by ancient Native Americans in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America—between 15,000 and 20,000, at least 4,000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy mounds, huge earthworks sculpted in the shapes of thunderbirds, water panthers, and other forms, not found anywhere else in the world in such concentrations. This second edition is updated throughout, incorporating exciting new research and satellite imagery. Written for general readers, it offers a comprehensive overview of these intriguing earthworks. Citing evidence from past excavations, ethnography, the traditions of present-day Native Americans in the Midwest, ground-penetrating radar and LIDAR imaging, and recent findings of other archaeologists, Robert A. Birmingham and Amy L. Rosebrough argue that effigy mound groups are cosmological maps that model belief systems and relations with the spirit world. The authors advocate for their preservation and emphasize that Native peoples consider the mounds sacred places. This edition also includes an expanded list of public parks and preserves where mounds can be respectfully viewed, such as the Kingsley Bend mounds near Wisconsin Dells, an outstanding effigy group maintained by the Ho-Chunk Nation, and the Man Mound Park near Baraboo, the only extant human-shaped effigy mound in the world.
Author | : Margaret S. Drower |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 1995-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0299146235 |
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Flinders Petrie has been called the “Father of Modern Egyptology”—and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascinating biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie’s in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-nine. Drower combines her first-hand knowledge with Petrie’s own voluminous personal and professional diaries to forge a lively account of this influential and sometimes controversial figure. Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt. She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of Petrie’s important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery sherds in historical dating. Petrie's careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amélineau, who boasted he had smashed the stone jars he could not carry away to be sold, and Maspero and Naville, who mangled a pyramid at El Kula they had vainly tried to break into.
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Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Robert A. Birmingham |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2009-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0299232638 |
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Between A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds—including the world’s largest known bird effigy—at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison, Wisconsin. These huge earthworks, sculpted in the shape of birds, mammals, and other figures, have aroused curiosity for generations and together comprise a vast effigy mound ceremonial landscape. Farming and industrialization destroyed most of these mounds, leaving the mysteries of who built them and why they were made. The remaining mounds are protected today and many can be visited. explores the cultural, historical, and ceremonial meanings of the mounds in an informative, abundantly illustrated book and guide. Finalist, Social Science, Midwest Book Awards
Author | : Robert A. Birmingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Alice Beck Kehoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Increase Allen Lapham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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