Indian Mounds of the Atlantic Coast A Guide to Sites from Maine to Florida by Jerry N. McDonald and Susan L. Woodward Guides to the American Landscape 1987, 6x9", 162 pages 77 b&w figures, including maps drawings, photos Softcover $14.95 (0-939923-03-3) This book is temporarily out of stock, but a revised edition will soon be released

DESCRIPTION

The mounds and mound-like features of the Atlantic Coast Region of the United States were built by many groups of Native Americans for various reasons over a span of some 5,000 years. This guide provides background and access information to 42 extant, publicly accessible mounds, earthworks, shell middens, stone structures, and other artificial landscape features found from Maine to Florida, including West Virginia. The book reviews the geography and chronology of the various peoples who built these features and summarizes the perception and fate of the mounds and other structures during the Historic Period. Sources of additional information about the archeological features and their builders are identified.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jerry McDonald is coauthor of two books about Indian mounds -- Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley and Indian Mounds of the Atlantic Coast -- and is currently writing two other books on the subject. He has degrees from Muskingum College (MA), the University of Texas (MA), and UCLA (PhD). His professional interests include the distribution of plants and animals, physical geography, and the identification and appreciation of cultural landscapes. Dr. McDonald is a member of the M & W Speakers Bureau and is available for presentations and book signings.

Susan Woodward is a member of the faculty of the Department of Geography at Radford University in Radford, Virginia, who has professional interests in biogeography, resource use and conservation, and cultural geography. She has degrees from Middlebury College (BA), the University of Arizona (MA), and UCLA (PhD). These authors collaborated on writing Indian Mounds of the Atlantic Coast and Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley while both taught geography at Radford University.

REVIEWS

"An excellent means to a direct experience with eastern U.S. prehistory." (Appalachian Journal, Summer 1988)