Woodland Mounds in West Virginia

by Darla Spencer

Book Overview

The first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. They created wild theories about who the mysterious mound builders might be.

It was not until the 1880s that Smithsonian Institution investigations revealed that the mound builders were the ancestors of living Native Americans. More than four hundred mounds have been recorded in West Virginia, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467138657
• ISBN13: 9781467138659
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"