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... the excavations and ceramic inventory, frequently using tables in English supplied by Dumond. Apart from three major excavations elsewhere on the site, archaeological investigation was confined to the adoratory, a secondary platform (Mound 4) attached to the west side of the main pyramid (Mound 1). Dumond’s...

... of numerous ceremonial centers and house-mound groups. Temple mounds, palace platforms, ball courts, and house mounds stretch out along the river. Detailed investigation was made at the Barton Ramie site, an “arbitrarily defined segment of the continuum of settlement,” with 262 mounds of which 65 were...

...Jeremiah F. Epstein These excavations were made in 1957, while the authors were fighting in the southern part of Camaguey province. The caney is a circular, artificially constructed burial mound yielding a single skeleton. The excavations by Guarch and Payares were done in 20 cm. layers...

... Society. The site of La Victoria was first discovered by Carnegie Institution archaeologist Shook in 1947. It consists of about 8 to 10 rectangular platform mounds, none of them taller than 2 meters. Probably never more than 100 persons occupied the site, dedicating their life to basic agricultural...

...), 107-111. 1946 18. “A Reconsideration of Shell Mounds with Respect to Population and Nutrition.” American Antiquity , 12:1 (July 1946), 50-53. 19. “The Incidence and Significance of Disease among the Aztecs and Related Tribes,” HAHR , 26:3 (Aug. 1946), 320-335. 20. “Human Sacrifice...

... not appear to be consistent. For example, under settlement features he writes of artificial mounds, artificial islas , and house mounds. Denevan presents the archaeological, historical, contemporary, and world context of these earthworks in separate chapters. He also fits his discussion of the population...

... distribution and density), types of house mounds, architectural layouts, and hierarchical (political) relationships (based on size and distance) between sites. Many new descriptive data are presented, largely for the Late Classic period. Settlement patterns now provide a vehicle to reconstruct...

... of socioeconomic status and ceremony in some chapters. This book contains a great variety of information on people's lives at this early village. The site has a small number of earthen mounds, but their existence points to an organized community and control over local labor. The findings suggest communal...

... of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unfortunately this volume does little to redress the imbalances described. Three essays summarize archaeological and anthropological research on the “Mississippian” Indian cultures which produced the distinctive temple mounds. Best is Bruce D. Smith’s piece on subsistence...

... of sites such as Pottery Mound, perhaps because the Pueblos were under pressure from nomadic peoples. At that same time, however, the area was still thriving, little anticipating the coming shock of the invasion. Carroll Riley’s new book is a clear and well-written synthesis of the native American...

... analysis is cast in regard to the valley’s possible relationship as a colony of the Tiwanaku state. Another set of chapters concentrates on the ethnohistory of mortuary rituals in colonial Peru by Frank Salomon, ethnoarchaeology and ethnohistory of the Araucanian funeral mounds by Tom D. Dillehay...

.... The final “host” group comprised peoples who had lived in more or less egalitarian polities in the general vicinity of the Choctaw “Mother Mound” near modern Philadelphia, Mississippi, since well before De Soto’s time. Choctaw, the language, became the public language for peoples who spoke other languages...

... Tolita (300 B.C. to A.D. 350), the largest archaeological site of a region famous for its earthen mounds, elegant pottery, and delicate goldwork. The book is based on a decade of archaeological work in what DeBoer refers to as “La Tolita’s hinterland,” an area dominated by the Santiago and Cayapas...

... essentially hero cults and cults to the dead. Leaders went to great lengths to stage these rituals of rule, which involved a formal lying in state as well as an elaborate funeral procession. These were spectacular affairs with huge hearses and mounds of flowers. The entire Mexican capital shut down...

... of stratigraphic sections and descriptions have been printed. The Carnegie map of Chichén Itzá omits house mounds, so that we still have no idea whether the site was a ceremonial center, a city, or what. As Brunhouse makes clear, the high officials of Carnegie grew increasingly skeptical of Morley’s capability...

... that a cultural area existed with homogeneous characteristic and perhaps even an ethnic identity, different from its neighboring Pastos, Quitos and Panzaleos” (p. 110). He focuses on pyramid mounds with ramps, which have been documented in several archaeological sites: Cochasquí (which he prefers to spell...

... of Peru—and the social, political, and economic forces that were inscribing themselves on the urban landscape in the early twentieth century. Ramón Joffré observes that the past is ever visible in coastal Peru, for huacas (ancient adobe platform mounds) dot the agricultural fields, towns, and cities...

... by a canal to a cistern on the top of the eastern platform where rainfall could be stored; the stored water could then be released into the sunken court, creating an artificial lake. The central stela in this court was placed on a low mound, so that it would have been above the height of the water. Another...

... chapters on the snake ef gy of Serpent Mound State Memorial in Ohio and the petroglyphs in Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in Alberta. They also afforded space to other cultural items used for communication in Indigenous societies like stelae, monumental poles, sacred bundles, cotton textiles...

.... Of particular interest are tunnels and chambers which indicate their function as burial places, linking them to the cult of the dead, and to burial mounds elsewhere. Related to archaeology are the geological and palaeontological investigations of E. W. Guenther, H. Bunde and G. Nobis and the study by Klaus...