The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings

Book Overview

Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks--the gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. In their prime one of the premier pilgrimage destinations in North America, these monuments are believed to have been ceremonial centers used by ancestors of Native Americans, called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813937787
• ISBN13: 9780813937786
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary