Native Americans, Archaeologists & the Mounds

by Barbara A. Mann

Ever since European settlers stumbled upon the eighteenth-century mounds, explanations and interpretations of them - often ridiculous and seldom Native American - have appeared as sober scholarship. Today, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) has intensified the debate over who ?owns? the mounds - modern descendants of the Mound builders or Western archaeologists. Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820455261
• ISBN13: 9780820455266
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 22.2" x 15.2" x 15.2"