Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America

Robert A Birmingham, Amy L Rosebrough

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Oxbow Books
01 September 2024

Archaeology by period & region; Landscape archaeology

Between c. AD 700 and 1100, Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting of thousands of earthen mounds sculpted into animals and animal spirits that mirrored their belief and clan-based social structure and that served an important role in mortuary ritual. In so doing, the Late Woodland people created quite visible three-dimensional maps of ancient cosmology and social structures that are similar to the beliefs and social systems of more recent Indian people.

Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes will provide an overview of the effigy mound phenomenon of the Upper Midwest centered on southern Wisconsin. It documents the nature of these unique landscapes, describing the use of topography and natural features to create the ceremonial landscapes, and provides the interpretation that these were living landscapes in which ancestral animals and supernatural beings were ritually brought back to life at places where the spirits are best evoked in a continuous cycle of death and rebirth of the earth and its people. These monuments can often only be fully appreciated by modern observers from the air and Robert Birmingham includes both high quality historical and modern maps, aerial photographs and the results of the very latest LIDAR imagery to reveal detail of the stunning complexity and ordered layouts of these mysterious spiritual landscapes.

AUTHOR: Robert A. Birmingham served as the state archaeologist of Wisconsin for many years and taught Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin Waukesha, USA. His numerous books include Indian Mounds of Wisconsin (2017, with Amy L. Rosebrough); Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes (2009); and Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town (2006, with Lynn G. Goldstein).

By: Robert A Birmingham, Amy L Rosebrough
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 185mm,
ISBN: 9781785700873
ISBN 10: 1785700871
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 September 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Preface 1: Introduction 2: The World of the Effigy Mound Builders 3: Decoding the Mounds: Insights into Ancient Ideology 4: Effigy Mound Landscapes 5: Cultural Change: The Rise and Demise of Effigy Mound Building Appendix: Effigy mounds on public lands that can be visited by the public

Robert A. Birmingham served as the state archaeologist of Wisconsin for many years and taught Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin Waukesha, USA. His numerous books include Indian Mounds of Wisconsin (2017, with Amy L. Rosebrough); Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes (2009); and Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town (2006, with Lynn G. Goldstein).

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Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America

Robert A Birmingham, Amy L Rosebrough

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