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Native copper nugget from glacial drift, Ontonagon County, Michigan. An example of the raw material worked by the people of the Old Copper Complex — 27 Apr 2018

The Cult of the Dead in Prehistoric America

*By jason and sarah*

*Archaeology & Science*

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Long ago, a type of ritualized worldview spread throughout a broad expanse of north-eastern America, described in the archaeological literature as the ancient ‘Cult of the Dead’ or the ‘Eastern Burial Cult’. Emerging at around 1500 BC from...
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A diorama at the Etowah Mounds showing 2 stone effigies being ritually buried, next to the actual statues, seen from the rear — 29 Jan 2018

Landscape of the Ancients: The Hopewellian Burial Mounds Lift the Veil on Prehistoric Native American Cultures

*By jason and sarah*

*Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure*

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The Prehistoric Native Americans of the Hopewell culture (Middle Woodland Period) constructed burial mounds filled with precious artifacts such as shells, copper and silver items, obtained from established trading networks crisscrossing...
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Hopewell culture

The Cult of the Dead in Prehistoric America

Landscape of the Ancients: The Hopewellian Burial Mounds Lift the Veil on Prehistoric Native American Cultures