Book
Mounds for the dead: an analysis of the Adena culture
Carnegie Museum • 37 • Published In 1963 • Pages: 315
By: Dragoo, Don W..
Abstract
Dragoo excavated and analyzed the material from the Cresap Mound, a stratified Adena mound in West Virginia. Excavation and analysis of this mound provided the first real relative chronology for Adena. In addition to presenting the data from the Cresap Mound, Dragoo reinvestigated the major Adena museum collections in the Ohio Valley. This also helped with developing the relative chronology. The other major sites in the Ohio Valley are described and then compared with the Adena mounds that had been found on the Delmarva peninsula. Dragoo also looks for evidence on the origins of Adena and finds it mostly in the adjacent Late Archaic cultures such as Red Ocher and Glacial Kame. Adena is also briefly contrasted with Hopewell.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry ; 2005
- Field Date
- June-August 1958
- Coverage Date
- early to late Adena
- Coverage Place
- Cresap Mound (46 Mr 7); West Virginia, United States
- Notes
- BY Don W. Dragoo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-310)
- LCSH
- Adena culture