06 Nov 2017 Bones of the Child, Tools of the Shaman: Ritual and Cosmology at the Hopewell Tunacunnhee Mounds By Jason Jarrell Archaeology & Science 0 Near Trenton in Dade County, Georgia, is a place called Tunacunnhee, supposedly named after a Native American word meaning “Lookout Creek”. Located just a few hundred yards east of Lookout Creek is an archaeological site known as the... Read More
13 Oct 2017 Ghost Talkers and Puma Men: Adena Totemism and the Shamans of the Early Woodland Period By Jason Jarrell Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure 0 The people of the Adena Culture are widely regarded as the first builders of mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley.By conventional dating the culture spans the period of 1000 BC to around 300 AD. Adena people built conical burial mounds ranging... Read More