The Real Mound Builders of North America
Subtitle: A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 02, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781498570626
Description: "The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the dominant evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted unchanged in terms of their essential social structures and cultural traditions, varying only in terms of ceremonial practices that manifested these deep structures"--
Notes: Source title: The Real Mound Builders of North America: A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD