Mounds of Earth and Shell by Bonnie Shemie

Native Sites Series: The Southeast

Grade:  5-11

Summary:  From the author's Native Dwellings series, this attractive book focuses on the mounds constructed east of the Mississippi from Ontario to Florida by ancient peoples, particularly the Adena, the Hopewells, and the Mississippians. Shemie describes and illustrates the sites, presenting them as the source of our information about early, advanced cultures in America. Shaded pastel drawings in full color show what the areas may have looked like at the height of each civilization, while smaller drawings reproduced in black and white indicate the shapes of various mound complexes and illustrate the artifacts found there.

Excavations show sophisticated cities, large effigy mounds, centers of worship, and possibly, vast earthwork calendars. Objects found in the mounds and burial sites provide graphic information about how these ancient people lived.

 
Book Details
Format: Hardcover
Condition :very good; ex lib book w/labels on front endpage.

Publisher: Tundra Books

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