Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

Author(s): Ephraim George Squier; Edwin Hamilton Davis

Year: 1848

Summary

This book was the first publication on any subject issued by the Smithsonian Institution. It is one of the most important and significant publications on the subject of ancient American archaeology. The digital copy available here is a copy of the first edition of the report. In 1998 the Smithsonian Institution Press published an edition of the full report with a detailed, interesting, and very useful introductory essay by David J. Meltzer.

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Cite this Record

Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Ephraim George Squier, Edwin Hamilton Davis. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge ,Volume 1. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 1848 ( tDAR id: 372615) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8JW8BX2

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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/7486


Keywords

Culture
Hopewell • Mississippian • Woodland

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Metal • Mineral • Shell

Site Type
Burial Mound • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Non-Domestic Structures

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Architectural Documentation • Data Recovery / Excavation • Ethnographic Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Systematic Survey

General
Ancient Monuments • Hopewell

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -97.646; min lat: 29.917 ; max long: -79.277; max lat: 43.708 ;

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 576788

NADB citation id number(s): 000000071348

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