Mound Sites of the Ancient South: A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms
“Mound Sites of the Ancient South: A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdomswill go far in bringing the South’s pre-Columbian past into our historical imaginations. Bowne leads the curious in exploring those places where ancient monuments rise up across the land to remind all that a wondrous and complex world existed before America. He offers a succinct, yet thorough, overview of the Mississippian Period and then lengthy treatments of some select sites. As a guide, it is magnificent; but I predict the book will also have wide appeal in undergraduate courses and as a reference for many scholars and others interested in the precontact Southeast.”—Robbie Ethridge, author ofFrom Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mis sissippian World, 1540–1715