Paper topic

Suzellon Taylor ATY 595

1.  Who Built the Mounds and Why It Matters (working title)

 

2.                                                        BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Myths and the Moundbuilders

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   Gosden, Chris.                                                                                                                  

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 Rubertone, Patricia E.

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    Sayre, Gordon M.

      1998  The Moundbuilders and the Imagination of American Antiquity in Jefferson,

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    Lehman-Hartleben, Karl.

      1943  Thomas Jefferson, Archaeologist.  American Journal of Archaeology 47(2):161 –

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  1990  Earth Patterns: Essays in Landscape Archaeology.  Charlottesville, Virginia:

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  2007  The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America.  Gainesville

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Orser, Charles E.

  2004  Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation.  Philadelphia Pennsylvania:

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3.  My paper is about the racialization of Native Americans in the Southeast United States, focusing on the Moundbuilding cultures, and including Thomas Jefferson’s excavation of mounds on his land in Virginia.  I will explore his subsequent findings and interpretations, and the effects these had on the interpretations of other Native American sites, from that time to the present.   

 

4.  The theoretical approach I am using is political economy, in particular how capitalism affects our interpretation of cultures.  I will discuss the Marxist view of capitalism and its effects on archaeology, both past and present.