num_pages: 369
description: Our forebears, finding large, incomprehensible earthworks scattered down the Mississippi Valley, refused to believe they were built by the aborigines who still cluttered up the place and impeded settlement. Mr. Silverberg describes, with gleeful and copious quotation, the nineteenth-century literature of speculation which attributed these monuments to the Phoenicians, stray Vikings, the lost tribes of Israel, refugees from Atlantis, an extinct race of giants, and Welshmen. The book, which is charmingly written, ends with a history of the archeological work which gave the mounds back to the Indians. -- The Atlantic Monthly
language: English
title: Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth
titlecomplete: Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth
genres: History, Anthropology, Science, Archaeology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 117
publisher: Ohio Univ Pr