Download or read book Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States - The Original Classic Edition written by Cyrus Thomas and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Cyrus Thomas, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States: Look inside the book: This is probably true in regard to the mounds explored by these archaeologists in Ohio, but is erroneous if applied generally; as very many, evidently used and intended as burying places only, are but two or three feet high, and so far as the more recent examinations made in other sections—especially the explorations carried on under the Bureau of Ethnology—have shown, tumuli of this character are usually from 3 toPg 13 10 feet high, though some, it is true, are of much larger dimensions; but these are the exceptions and not the rule. ...These are all burial mounds, but one singular feature observed is that those on the higher sandy ground, although about the same size and having cores of clay similar to those on the firm clay portion of the ridge, have a layer of sand, some two feet or more added to them, yet when opened the contents and mode of construction of the two classes were found to be the same, to wit, a layer of hard clay covering decaying human bones, fragments of pottery, and rude stone implements. About Cyrus Thomas, the Author: Cyrus Thomas (July 27, 1825–June 26, 1910) was a U.S. ethnologist and entomologist prominent in the late 19th century and noted for his studies of the natural history of the American West. ...He was later named to the United States Entomological Commission in 1877 to serve alongside Charles Valentine Riley and Alpheus Spring Packard; at the same time accepting the position of chief entomologist for the State of Illinois.