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Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape.


Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on…

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This was one of my go-to non-fiction books when researching for my book. It gives a great sense of the history and variety of the mounds in the United States. It's estimated there were once thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands. A few have been preserved, most have been forgotten or obliterated.

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