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Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
This work offers an analysis of the way in which the phenomenon of not in my backyard operates in the United States. The author takes the situation further by offering hope for a heightened public engagement with the pressing environmental issues of the day.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publish Date: Mar 15th, 1995
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - 0002
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.80in - 0.95lb
- EAN: 9780299313647
- Categories: • Indigenous - General• United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO• Archaeology
About the Author
Robert A. Birmingham is the author of Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes and the coauthor of Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town. Now retired, he served as the state archaeologist of Wisconsin for many years and received the Increase Lapham Research Medal from the Wisconsin Archeological Society. Amy L. Rosebrough is a Wisconsin archaeologist and the coauthor of Water Panthers, Bears, and Thunderbirds: Exploring Wisconsin's Effigy Mounds.
Praise for this book
"Details 2,000 years of history, from pre-mound-builder groups to the modern era. ... Important and necessary."
--Booklist
--Booklist
"The challenge of explaining Wisconsin's Indian mounds has been met. ... [A] remarkable book." --Historical Geography