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Adena portraiturebook chapter 1973 • Snow, Charles E. (Charles Ernest) & Baby, Raymond S.
Adena • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Snow describes the Adena physical type, mostly based on the cranial material. He compares them to the Shell Mound and Fort Ancient peoples. Skull deformation and a few of the phsical abnormalities are described. Snow then explores the possible origin...The Adena peoplebook chapter 1974 • Webb, William S. (William Snyder) & Snow, Charles E. (Charles Ernest)
Adena • North America > Eastern Woodlands
'This study of 'The Adena People' deals largely with their burial customs and earth mounds erected over the remains of their dead; and with the physical anthropology of such skeletal material as has been preserved …' (page 5). One of the ideas put fo...