The bioarchaeology of Virginia burial mounds - Gold, Debra L., (Debra Lynn) (University of Alabama Press, 2004)
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-155) and index
From Jefferson to Jamestown : Monacan history through English eyes -- Virginia burial mounds -- The bioarchaeology of middle range societies -- Bioarchaeological analysis : skeletal inventory, subsistence and health patterns, and mortuary activity -- From measurements to meaning : Monacan history through Monacan bones
A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds-reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet-marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape, having been removed over the centuries by a variety of natural and cultural causes. This study uses what remains of the mounds-excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s- to gain a new understanding of the Monacans and to gauge their importance in the realm of the late prehistoric period in the Eastern Woodlan