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American Antiquities, And Discoveries In The West: Being An Exhibition Of The Evidence That An Ancient Population Of Partiallly Civilized Nations, Dif

American Antiquities, And Discoveries In The West: Being An Exhibition Of The Evidence That An Ancient Population Of Partiallly Civilized Nations, Dif

Priest, Josiah

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Native American HistoryTravel GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354508693
ISBN13: 9789354508691
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before Columbus, the continent was already old. America keeps its secrets long. In American Antiquities, Josiah Priest gathers early reports of mysterious mounds, ruined fortifications, and carved relics to argue for an ancient population, distinct from the nations encountered by Europeans. Part travel digest, part archive, this early american archaeology book reads like a cabinet of curiosities: pre-columbian ruins narratives, eyewitness testimony, and the period's bold mound builder theories set beside maps, measurements, and notices from learned societies. Priest ranges across pre-columbian north america with special attention to the ohio valley mounds and other ancient american earthworks. He follows the trails of the ancient monuments mississippi valley, weighing traditions, artefacts, and comparisons that later fed smithsonian mound surveys and the wider history of American archaeology. Read today, it is both a window onto nineteenth-century thinking and a rich quarry of local detail: a primary source for researchers and a reference for local historians tracing sites, names, and early finds. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Presented as an antiquarian history reprint and complete facsimile edition, this landmark compilation belongs on the shelf of classic-literature collectors, while remaining irresistibly readable for anyone drawn to lost civilisations, contested origins, and the enduring fascination of the American past. For readers of frontier history and early scholarship, it captures the moment when archaeology, legend, and nation-building collided in print so vividly.

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