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The text surveys prehistoric earthen mounds across the Mississippi Valley and neighboring regions, describing their shapes, contents, and likely functions—effigy figures, temple platforms, and burial or sacrificial tumuli—and highlights major complexes including a large serpent effigy. It examines skeletal and linguistic evidence used to propose origins, outlines cephalic classifications and migration hypotheses from the Caribbean and Bering Strait, and notes a distinctive craniological type in Midwestern collections. Comparative craniology and philology are presented as the principal tools for evaluating competing theories while recording regional mound forms and distributions.

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Title: The Origin of the Mound Builders

Author: Alfred Oscar Coffin

Release date: February 7, 2021 [eBook #64485]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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THE ORIGIN
OF THE
Mound Builders

A THESIS
BY
ALFRED O. COFFIN, M.A.,
Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College,
Rodney, Mississippi.

1889.

 

 

CINCINNATI, OHIO:
Elm Street Printing Company, No. 176 Elm Street,
1889.

The Origin of the Mound-Builders.