Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast [Hardcover]

Mallory M. O'Connor (Author)

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In 1492, America was not an empty wilderness, ripe for European annexation but rather a land of thriving cultural, religious, and commercial centers with complex societies and millions of inhabitants. O'Connor (Native American Art Studies Assn.) traces the rise, flowering, and decline of more than 20 of these lost centers of Mississippian culture, including Cahokia (Illinois), Etowah and Ocmulgee (Georgia), Calusa (Florida), and Town Creek (North Carolina), from 500 to 1500 A.D. The author's emphasis is on the art and architecture of Native American peoples, which reveal a highly developed culture destroyed by factors such as European conquest and modern looting. Her spare and lucid text is complemented by excellent photographs by Barbara Gibbs and architectural drawings by William Morgan. Well organized and visually appealing, this work should lead informed lay readers, as well as scholars, to their own discovery of America.
Jamie S. Hansen, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Florida (March 20, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081301350X
• ISBN-13: 978-0813013503
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,358,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Bag, June 14, 2000

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This review is from: Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast (Hardcover)

I was glad I found this book because it has much information about the Precolumbian American Southeast, an area whose history is often ignored. It provided a good description of both the archaeology and iconography of the ancient cultures. If you plan to visit any sites in the Southeast, I would recommend this book. However, the first chapter was not worthy of the rest of the book. It showed an appalling lack of knowledge of other civilizations. It was both overromanticized and made unjustified comparisons. Luckily, I decided to continue reading.