| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 160 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-155) and index. |
| Contents |
From Jefferson to Jamestown : Monacan history through English eyes -- Virginia burial mounds -- The bioarchaeology of middle range societies -- Bioarchaeological analysis : skeletal inventory, subsistence and health patterns, and mortuary activity -- From measurements to meaning : Monacan history through Monacan bones. |
| Summary |
A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds-reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet-marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape, having been removed over the centuries by a variety of natural and cultural causes. This study uses what remains of the mounds-excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s- to gain a new understanding of the Monacans and to gauge their importance in the realm of the late prehistoric period in the Eastern Woodlan. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Monacan Indians -- Antiquities.
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Monacan Indians. |
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Antiquities. |
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Mounds -- Virginia.
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Mounds. |
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Virginia. |
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Virginia.
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Human remains (Archaeology) |
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Virginia -- Antiquities.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gold, Debra L. (Debra Lynn), 1967- Bioarchaeology of Virginia burial mounds. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004 0817314385 (DLC) 2004010595 (OCoLC)55131361 |
| ISBN |
9780817384067 (electronic book) |
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0817384065 (electronic book) |
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0817314385 |
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9780817314385 |
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0817351442 |
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9780817351441 |
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