Hello, lovely listeners--a whole bunch of life stuff has smacked us right in the face recently. Thank you so much for your patience and continued support--we really love you. This week's classic episode is all about mounds and the people that built (and absolutely did not build) them.
Links
Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis (via WorldCat)
Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana (American Antiquity)
12th-Century Cahokia Was a “Melting Pot” (Archaeology)
Cahokia and the Excavation of Mound 72 (Lithics Casting Lab)
The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point: A Place of Rings (via WorldCat)
Moundbuilders (Newberry)
Early pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast (via WorldCat)
White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities (Smithsonian)Check out Ken
Feder’s take on the myth of the moundbuilders over on Archaeological Fantasies. He’s also the author of this week’s Dirt Book Club entry, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science
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