"The following explorations among the mounds, earthworks and stone-graves of the aborigines of Tennessee, were commenced in the early part of 1868, and were continued to the close of 1869." -- Preface.

This oversized reprint volume presents original materials from Moore's northernmost expeditions conducted in the early 1900s as he surveyed areas of potential archaeological interest in the southeastern United States. Some of the sites he found were later targeted for major excavations during the days of the WPA/CCC. Many National Register Historic Sites are today located along the rivers he explored in this work. In many cases, however, Moore's report documents sites since destroyed by river action or by lake impoundments behind hydroelectric dams or by looters. As with all of Moore's other in.

The two works ... reproduced by facsimile in this volume were published originally in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1905 and 1907.