Mound Builders lecture broadside   Save
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Description: Broadside for a lecture to be given by Professor John Patterson MacLean on the subject of the Moundbuilders, former inhabitants of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. The lecture took place at Centenary E.M. Church in Cortland, New York, on November 24, 1886. The Hopewell culture, sometimes referred to as the Moundbuilders, existed in Ohio from about 100 B.C. to A.D. 500. Major Hopewell sites consist of geometric and hilltop enclosures along with burial mounds, primarily found in the river valleys of central and southern Ohio. John MacLean (1848-1939) was a Universalist minister, historian and archaeologist whose work included the books "A Manual of the Antiquity of Man" (1877), "The Mound Builders" (1879) and "Mastodon, Mammoth and Man" (1880). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS1154
Subjects: Archaeology--United States--History; Mounds--Ohio River Valley; Hopewell culture; Education;
Places: Cortland (New York)