The selected archaeological papers of Frederic Ward Putnam (Antiquities of the New World) [Unknown Binding]

F. W Putnam (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1973 | Series: Antiquities of the New World

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1873. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PKEFACE. Although the title intimates that our investigations have been directed principally to an examination of the antiquities of a single State, the present work will be found to embrace within its scope a much more extended field of observation. In prosecuting the proposed inquiries, it appeared both unnecessary and improper narrowly to observe the boundary-lines which separate modern States. It will be remembered, moreover, that the original grant from the British crown conveyed to the Trustees of the Colony of Georgia a territory greater by far than that now embraced within the geographical limits accorded to her as a State. A striking similarity exists among the customs, utensils, implements, and ornaments of all the Southern Indians: consequently, in elucidating the archaeology of a region often' occupied in turn by various tribes, it seemed appropriate to mention and contrast the antiquities of Virginia, the Caroliuas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Our object has been, from the earliest and most authentic sources of information at command, to convey a correct impression of the location, characteristics, form of government, social relations, manufactures, domestic economy, diversions, and customs of the Southern Indiaus, at the time of primal contact between them and the Europeans. This introducto. ry part of the work is followed by an examination of tumuli, earthworks, and various relics obtained from burial-mounds, gathered amid refuse-piles, found in ancient graves, and picked up in cultivated fields and on the sites of old villages and fishing-resorts. Whenever these could be interpreted in the light of early recorded observations, or were capable of explanation by customs not obsolete at the dawn of the historic period, the a...

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The University of Alabama Press has again done the right thing in publishing an affordable reprint of C. C. Jones, Jr.'s, Antiquities of the Southern Indians. Jones was the first anthropologist to be honored with an obituary in the American Anthropologist, and for a very long time he was the only one. Antiquities of the Southern Indians, his masterpiece, sets a very high critical standard for the nascent science of archaeology in the South. And as an exemplar of precise, graceful English prose, has another southern archaeologist surpassed him to this day? "

—Charles M. Hudson, The University of Georgia

"Though ethnohistorical and archaeological methodologies have changed significantly since Jones published his work, this classic volume will interest students of southeastern Indians as well as scholars of the history of archaeology."

—Georgia Historical Quarterly

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Charles C. Jones was the son of a Presbyterian minister.  He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1852 then followed with a law degree from Harvard University in 1855. He became mayor of Savannah in 1860.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 269 pages
• Publisher: Published by AMS Press for Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass (1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0404573053
• ISBN-13: 978-0404573058
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,181,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)