Mound Group Research Articles

The Melhado Site, a House Mound Group in British Honduras

The Melhado site is near the town of El Cayo, in the Cayo District of west central British Honduras. This region forms a part of the eastern edge of the Peten forests. Its limestone hills and ridges are covered by a dense jungle growth, including such typical trees as the mahogany, sapodilla, Spanish cedar, and cahune palm. Rainfall is heavy, amounting to 50 to 70 inches a year at El Cayo, most of it falling in the rainy season from June to October.

The Kolomoki Mound Group, Early County, Georgia

The recent revival of interest in the Kolomoki site, little known except to southeastern archaeologists, has suggested that a short description would be of value. The mound group was described by C. C. Jones in 1873 as Messier Plantation Mound. Some random digging has been done from time to time, and several large collections of flint points have been removed. Dr. A. R. Kelly, Jesse D. Jennings, Robert Wauchope, and the writer have made surface collections which are now at Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia. Through the interest of Dr. C. C. Harrold of Macon, Georgia, the group has become a state park under the jurisdiction of the State of Georgia. Dr. Robert Wauchope and the writer excavated a series of test pits along the site of a proposed road and found evidence of scattered house sites. Jones reports burials adjacent to the large mound. During 1940 and 1941 the writer investigated two small mounds which were to be flooded by a proposed recreational development. These mounds did not yield much material, and the bulk of the information comes from the surface collections.

Painted Pottery Figurines from Illinois

A recent discovery in west-central Illinois seems sufficiently interesting and important to warrant this initial descriptive report. Six small pottery figurines were found with a compound burial in Mound 8 of the Knight Mound Group. Five of these human effigies, apparently fashioned to represent the prehistoric people culturally responsible for these mounds, not only display the remarkably smooth, stylistic skill of the culture and artisan producing them, but are modeled and painted to show costumes and styles in personal ornamentation wjth sufficient detail to make an important contribution to our knowledge of the producers’ material culture. The sixth figurine is extremely simple and devoid of detail, and is not painted.

The Cahokia Mound Group and Its Village Site Materials. P. F. Titterington. (Small quarto, 40 pp., consisting of 16 pp. of text, 2 mound plans in the text, 24 photographic plates with 49 figures of mounds and artifacts; privately printed, St. Louis, Missouri, 1938.)

The Cahokia Mound Group and Its Village Site Materials. P. F. Titterington. (Small quarto, 40 pp., consisting of 16 pp. of text, 2 mound plans in the text, 24 photographic plates with 49 figures of mounds and artifacts; privately printed, St. Louis, Missouri, 1938.) - Volume 5 Issue 3

The Fisher Mound Group, Successive Aboriginal Occupations near the Mouth of the Illinois River

The Fisher Mound Group, Successive Aboriginal Occupations near the Mouth of the Illinois River

The Etowah Mound Group

American AnthropologistVolume 21, Issue 1 p. 94-98 Free Access The Etowah Mound Group Hubert H. S. Aimes, Hubert H. S. Aimes Sewanee, TennesseeSearch for more papers by this author Hubert H. S. Aimes, Hubert H. S. Aimes Sewanee, TennesseeSearch for more papers by this author First published: January‐March 1919 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1919.21.1.02a00180AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume21, Issue1January‐March 1919Pages 94-98 RelatedInformation