{"product_id":"9780817384067","title":"The Bioarchaeology of Virginia Burial Mounds","description":"\u003cb\u003eA long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds—reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet—marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape, having been removed over the centuries by a variety of natural and cultural causes. This study uses what remains of the mounds—excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s— to gain a new understanding of the Monacans and to gauge their importance in the realm of the late prehistoric period in the Eastern Woodlands.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Based on osteological examinations of dozens of complete skeletons and thousands of isolated bones and bone fragments, this work constructs information on Monacan demography, diet, health, and mortuary ritual in the 10th through the 15th centuries. The results show an overall pattern of stability and local autonomy among the Late Woodland village societies of interior Virginia in which a mixture of maize farming and the collection of wild food resources were successful for more than 600 years.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book—uniting biological and cultural aspects of the data for a holistic understanding of everyday life in the period—will be of interest to ethnohistorians, osteologists, bioarchaeologists, and anyone studying Late Woodland, Mississippian, and contact periods, as well as middle range societies, in the Eastern Woodlands.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDebra L. Gold\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology at St. Cloud State University.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Additional reviews:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Debra Gold's book represents the first scientific, bioarchaeological study of the mound builder populations in central Virginia and is a welcomed addition to our understanding of health, subsistence, and mortuary practices among Native American groups in the eastern Woodlands.\"—\u003ci\u003eSoutheastern Archaeology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080614756592,"sku":"9780817384067","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780817384067_p0.jpg?v=1763749907","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780817384067","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}