Abstract

Although the U.S. public is generally aware of the erections of central and eastern North America's pre-Columbian Mound-Builders, it does not widely appreciate how astonishingly numerous, extensive, and sophisticated (including lunar alignments) these earthworks were and how puzzling certain aspects of their histories and uses remain. Louisiana psychologist and investigator of the supernatural and the paranormal Gregory Little has written a very useful book of inventories, state by state, of hundreds (out of the original hundreds of thousands) of mounds and earthworks, many of which are illustrated with pictures from old U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology and other archaeological publications, supplemented by new visual reconstructions executed by illustrator/graphic designer Dee Turman. There are also a fair number of images of associated artifacts.