Them There Hills: Mounds and the Myth of the Moundbuilders - The Dirt 56

What this episode covers

It's all about mounds and moundbuilders on this week's episode with Anna and Amber. LinksCahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis [https://www.worldcat.org/title/cahokia-the-great-native-american-metropolis/oclc/41017312] (via WorldCat)Cahokia Mounds [https://cahokiamounds.org/]Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40035868?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents] (American Antiquity)12th-Century Cahokia Was a "Melting Pot" [https://www.archaeology.org/news/1880-140306-illinois-cahokia-immigrants] (Archaeology)Cahokia and the Excavation of Mound 72 [http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2001augustmound72excavation1.htm] (Lithics Casting Lab)The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point: A Place of Rings [https://www.worldcat.org/title/ancient-mounds-of-poverty-point-place-of-rings/oclc/50677131] (via WorldCat)Moundbuilders [https://publications.newberry.org/indiansofthemidwest/people-places-time/eras/moundbuilders/] (Newberry)Early pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast [https://www.worldcat.org/title/early-pottery-technology-function-style-and-interaction-in-the-lower-southeast/oclc/680620771] (via WorldCat)White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest's Mysterious Mound Cities [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/white-settlers-buried-truth-about-midwests-mysterious-mound-cities-180968246/#k0okPkPkZfHbE5Ev.99] (Smithsonian)Check out KenFeder's take on the myth of the moundbuilders [https://archyfantasies.com/the-history-of-pseudoarchaeology-the-moundbuilders-myth/] over on Archaeological Fantasies. He's also the author of this week's Dirt Book Club entry, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science andPseudoscience in Archaeology [https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/frauds-myths-and-mysteries-9780190629656?cc=us&lang=en&].ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast [[email protected]]