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More mounds were built by ancient Native American societies in Wisconsin thanin any other region of North America between 15000 and 20000 mounds atleast 4000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy mounds hugeearthworks sculpted into the shapes of birds animals and other forms notfound anywhere else in the world in such concentrations. This book written forgeneral readers but incorporating the most recent research offers acomprehensive overview of these intriguing earthworks and answers thequestions Who built the mounds? When and why were they built?Using evidence drawn from archaeology ethnography ethnohistory linguisticsand the traditions and beliefs of presentday Native Americans in the Midwestarchaeologists Birmingham and Eisenberg offer an important new interpretationof the effigy mound groups as cosmological maps that model ancient beliefsystems and social relations. Although the archaeological record indicates thatmost ancient Native American societies in the upper Midwest built moundsbetween about 800 B.C. and A.D. 1200 the effigy mounds bear such similarity tothe beliefs and clan structures of the HoChunk Ioway and closely relatednations that it is extremely likely that these people are descendants of theeffigy mound builders.Indian Mounds of Wisconsin includes a travel guide to sites in Wisconsin thatcan be visited by the public including many in state county and local parks. «
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