Reprints Moore's works on aboriginal mounds of the Georgia coast, coast of South Carolina, Savannah River, and Altamaha River--all originally published in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1897 and 1898. In his comprehensive introduction, Lewis Larson (Georgia's senior archaeologist) revisits each site and its findings, and discusses recent acquisitions. An appendix lists each site by county, and includes Moore site names, state site file numbers, burial types, selected diagnostic artifacts, and cultural period. 10x14". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Featuring contributions by leading scholars, this book goes beyond conventional archaeological studies by placing the description and interpretation of specific sites in the wider context of the landscape that connects them to one another.

North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled more than 10,000 years ago, but because early inhabitants left no written record, their story must be painstakingly reconstructed from the fragmentary and fragile archaeological record they left behind. Time before History is the first comprehensive account of the archaeology of North Carolina. Weaving together a wealth of information gleaned from archaeological excavations and surveys carried out across the state--from the mountains to the coast--it presents a fascinating, readable narrative of the state's native past across a vast sweep of time, from the Paleo-Indian period, when the first immigrants to North America crossed a land bridge that spanned the Bering Strait, through the arrival of European traders and settlers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

"This volume demonstrates how archaeologists working in the Southern Appalachian region over the past 40 years have developed rich interpretations of prehistoric and historic Southeastern Native societies by examining them from multiple scales of analysis. The end results of these examinations demonstrate both the uses and the constraints of multiscalar approaches in reconstructing various lifeways across the Southeast"--

Describes the state's prehistory and archaeological discoveries