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Indian mounds of Wisconsin / Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2000.Description: xv, 245 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0299168700 (cloth)
  • 0299168743 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 977.5/01 21
LOC classification:
  • E78.W8 B57 2000
Contents:
The mystery of the mounds -- Speculation, excavation, explanation : in search of the mound builders -- Wisconsin before the mound builders : the Paleo-Indian and archaic traditions -- Early burial mound builders : the early and middle woodland stages -- Effigy mound builders : the late woodland stage -- Temple mound builders : the Mississippian tradition -- Mound construction and use in later times : Oneota, northern Wisconsin, and the historic period -- Indian mounds in the modern world.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-239) and index.

The mystery of the mounds -- Speculation, excavation, explanation : in search of the mound builders -- Wisconsin before the mound builders : the Paleo-Indian and archaic traditions -- Early burial mound builders : the early and middle woodland stages -- Effigy mound builders : the late woodland stage -- Temple mound builders : the Mississippian tradition -- Mound construction and use in later times : Oneota, northern Wisconsin, and the historic period -- Indian mounds in the modern world.

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