Episode 179 - CLASSIC: Them There Hills: Mounds and Moundbuilder Myths

Hello, lovely listeners--a whole bunch of life stuff has smacked us right in the face recently. Thank you so much for your patience and continued support--we really love you. This week's classic episode is all about mounds and the people that built (and absolutely did not build) them.

• Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis (via WorldCat)

• Cahokia Mounds

• Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana (American Antiquity)

• 12th-Century Cahokia Was a “Melting Pot” (Archaeology)

• Cahokia and the Excavation of Mound 72 (Lithics Casting Lab)

• The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point: A Place of Rings (via WorldCat)

• Moundbuilders (Newberry)

• Early pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast (via WorldCat)

• White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities (Smithsonian)Check out Ken

• Feder’s take on the myth of the moundbuilders over on Archaeological Fantasies. He’s also the author of this week’s Dirt Book Club entry, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science
  
  
  Image: Cahokia site, via Great Rivers and Routes Tourism Bureau