Spirits of Earth - The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes

Informationen zum Autor Robert A. Birmingham served as Wisconsin State Archaeologist at the Wisconsin Historical Society for fifteen years. He now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha and writes from his home in Madison. He is coauthor, with Leslie E. Eisenberg, of Indian Mounds of Wisconsin (awarded the Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize), and, with Lynn G. Goldstein, of Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town . Klappentext Between AD 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America! with an estimated 1!300 mounds at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison! Wisconsin. This book explores the cultural! historical! and ceremonial meanings of the mounds. Zusammenfassung Between AD 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America! with an estimated 1!300 mounds at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison! Wisconsin. This book explores the cultural! historical! and ceremonial meanings of the mounds.

Product details

• Authors: Robert A Birmingham, Robert A. Birmingham
• Assisted by: Ray B Browne (Editor), Ray B. Browne (Editor), Gary Hoppenstand (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2009
• EAN: 9780299232641
• ISBN: 978-0-299-23264-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Wisconsin Land and Life (Paper; Wisconsin Land and Life; Wisconsin Land and Life (Paper; Wisconsin Land and Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous