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Traditions Of De-Coo-Dah, And Antiquarian Researches: Comprising Extensive Explorations, Surveys, And Excavations Of The Wonderful And Mysterious Eart

Traditions Of De-Coo-Dah, And Antiquarian Researches: Comprising Extensive Explorations, Surveys, And Excavations Of The Wonderful And Mysterious Eart

Pidgeon, William

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Native American HistoryAnthropologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9354509673
ISBN13: 9789354509674
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Earthworks rise, and questions follow. A vanished America leaves its marks. Listen to the earth speak. Unsettling, vivid, unforgettable. In Traditions Of De-Coo-Dah, William Pidgeon brings together field observation, reported tradition, and nineteenth-century debate to probe the ancient earthen mounds of North America. Part antiquarian research monograph, part travel-and-investigation record, it ranges across mound builder archaeology in the Mississippi Valley earthworks: measurements, site descriptions, and the logic by which early investigators tried to read soil, stone, and geometry as history. Alongside archaeological surveys and excavations, Pidgeon preserves an indigenous studies primary source in the form of De-Coo-Dah traditions attributed to the last prophet of the Elk Nation, set against arguments for an ancient population more numerous than the present aborigines. The result is a compelling window onto pre-columbian North America as it was imagined, mapped, and contested. Historically significant to early American antiquities and lost civilizations studies, this volume shows how American archaeology reference works were first assembled, with all the period's confidence and controversy. Read it for the tension between observation and legend, and for the early vocabulary of American archaeology moving from speculation towards systematic inquiry. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For casual readers, it is a gripping encounter with ancient earthen mounds; for collectors, a collector reprint volume with the atmosphere of a complete facsimile edition, and a foundational artefact of antiquarian research.

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