Ancestral Mounds: Vitality and Volatility of Native America

by Jay Miller and Jay Miller

Ancestral Mounds deconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Two centuries of academic scholarship regarding mounds have examined who, what, where, when, and how, but no serious investigations have addressed the basic question, why? Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological studies, Jay Miller explores the wide-ranging themes and variations of mounds, from those built thousands of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803278667
• ISBN13: 9780803278660
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"