The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America (Ancient Peoples and Places)
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Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
EAN (European Article Number): 9780500284681
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Paperback
Author: George R. Milner
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
Publication Date: 2005-04
Reading Level: 224
Description: Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as 'without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian Indian societies of eastern North America', this wide-ranging and copiously illustrated volume covers the entire sweep of Eastern Woodlands prehistory, with an emphasis on how these societies developed from hunter-gatherers to village farmers and town-dwellers.
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Review Summary: Great Reference Book
Date: 2004-11-23
Details: As a teacher of middle school I found this book to be a great reference in class.
Review Summary: Solid; 3.5
Date: 2004-11-23
Details: This is a very good introduction to the peoples who left behind the impressive mounds in eastern North America. This book is pitched at an undergraduate level. Milner provides a chronologically arranged review of the prehistory of eastern North America. He sticks closely to the archeaology of sites and is careful to avoid speculation beyond what the often modest evidence provides. Milner is a workmanlike writer who does a solid job of describing excavations and their probable significance. The illustrations are very good and there is anice appendix describing sites that can be visited. Deficiencies of this book are that there is relatively little discussion of why cultures changed. Were there climactic factors? Some comparisons with other evolving cultures of the Americas could have been enlightening.
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