mound-builders

The book also argues that the mound-builders had complex mathematical knowledge which enabled them to build the mounds, and hypothesises that we can work out the purpose of the mounds by linking them with the mythology of the Sioux, Iroquois and Cherokee Nations.

The Travels of a Mummy Expert 2009

After years of meticulous study, Cyrus Thomas, head of the Division, announced in 1894 that “the links directly connecting the Indians and the mound-builders are so numerous and well established, that archaeologists are justified in accepting the theory that they are one and the same people.”

Walmart and the Mound Builders 2009

In a ritual of purification going back through the Creek Nation to the mound-builders two thousand years ago, you took the Black Drink, you vomited, you were renewed to fight another day.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

Everyone long assumed that the ancient mound-builders obtained them through long-distance trade some 2,000 years ago.

The Mystery of the Ice Age Comet Deepens 2008

It was the mathematical shape of the Ohio mounds that suggested mound-builders; and so with the thousand objects of every-day life.

Life on Mars? The real lesson from Lowell - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Will this particular scrub fowl by force of her accidental discovery start a revolutionary change in the life-history of mound-builders generally?

My Tropic Isle 2003

The mysterious mound-builders fade into comparative insignificance before the grander and more ancient cliff-dwellers, whose castles lift their towers amid the sands of

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 Cosmos Mindeleff

The "mound-builders" have been busy all over the world.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

The first meeting in opposition to it was held at Red Stone Old Fort or Brownsville, the site of one of those ancient remains of the mound-builders which abound in the western valleys.

Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens

In their political organisation, their village life, their culture of the soil, their power of eloquence, their skill as politicians as well as warriors, they were superior to all the tribes in America as far as New Mexico, although in the making of pottery and other arts they were inferior to the mound-builders of the Ohio and the

Canada J. G. Bourinot