Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
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English: Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848) by the Americans Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis is a landmark in American scientific research, the study of the prehistoric indigenous mound builders of North America, and the early development of archaeology as a scientific discipline. It was the first publication by the Smithsonian Institution. The book had 306 pages, 48 lithographed maps and plates, and 207 wood engravings.
Plates I to X
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English: Plate I (frontispiece). A view of the ancient works at Marietta.
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engraving after Plate I in a later work
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English: Plate II. Map of a section of 12 miles of Scioto valley.
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English: Plate III, Figure 1. Map of a section of 6 miles of Miami valley.
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English: Plate III, Figure 2. Map of a section of 6 miles of Paint Creek valley.
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English: Plate V, depicting the Fort Hill earthworks in Highland County, Ohio.
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English: Plate VIII, Figure 1. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate VIII, Figure 2. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate IX, Figure 2. Fortified hill at the mouth of the Great Miami River.
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English: Plate IX, Figure 3. Ancient work near Lexington, Kentucky.
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English: Plate X. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
Plates XI to XX
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English: Plate XI, Figure 1. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XI, Figure 2. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XI, Figure 3. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XII, Figure 1. Stone work on Duck River, Tennessee.
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English: Plate XII, Figure 2. Ancient work in Preble County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XII, Figure 3. Ancient work in Greene County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XII, Figure 4. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XIII, Figure 1. Ancient work in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
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English: Plate XIV, Figure 1. Ancient work in Pickaway County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XIV, Figure 2. Highbank Park Works, located on the Olentangy River in Delaware County, Ohio, immediately north of the border with Franklin County, Ohio. The site is believed to have been built by the Late Prehistoric Cole culture.
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English: Plate XIV, Figure 3. The Peter Village site at Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex. The Adena culture site is located in Fayette County, Kentucky.
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English: Plate XIV, Figure 4. The Grimes Village site at Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex. The Adena culture site is located in Fayette County, Kentucky.
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English: Plate XV, Figure 1. Ancient work in Huron County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XV, Figure 2. Ancient work in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XV, Figure 3. Ancient work in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XV, Figure 4. Ancient work in Lorain County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XV, Figure 5. Ancient work in Lorain County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XV, Figure 6. Ancient work in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XV, Figure 7. Ancient work in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XV, Figure 8. Ancient work in Wood County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XIX. Mound City and other earthworks, now part of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Ross County near Chillicothe, Ohio.
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English: Plate XX. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
Plates XXI to XXX
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English: Plate XXI, Figure 1. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXI, Figure 2. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXI, Figure 3. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXI, Figure 4. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXIV. Ancient work in Pike County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXVI, depicting the Marietta Earthworks in Washington County, Ohio. The Conus Mound is now the location of the Mound Cemetery.
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lower resolution scan of Plate XXVI
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English: Plate XXVII, depicting the Portsmouth Earthworks, a Hopewell mound complex located in Portsmouth, Ohio and across the Ohio River in Greenup County, Kentucky.
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English: Plate XXVIII, Figure 1, depicting Group A within the Portsmouth Earthworks.
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English: Plate XXVIII, Figure 2, depicting Group B within the Portsmouth Earthworks.
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English: Plate XXVIII, Figure 3, depicting Group C within the Portsmouth Earthworks.
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English: Plate XXIX, Figure 1. Ancient work in Montgomery County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXIX, Figure 3. Ancient work in Franklin County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXX, Figure 1. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXX, Figure 2. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXX, Figure 3. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXX, Figure 4. Stone work in Ross County, Ohio.
Plates XXXI to XL
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English: Plate XXXI, Figure 1. Graded way in Pike County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXI, Figure 2. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXI, Figure 3. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXI, Figure 4. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXII, Figure 1. Ancient work in Butler County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXII, Figure 2. Ancient work in Washington County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXII, Figure 3. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXII, Figure 4. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXII, Figure 5. Ancient work in Ross County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXII, Figure 6. Ancient work in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
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English: Plate XXXIII, Figure 1. Ancient work in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
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English: Plate XXXIII, Figure 2. Ancient work in Randolph County, Indiana.
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English: Plate XXXIV, Figure 1. Ancient work in Clermont County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXIV, Figure 2. Ancient work in Clermont County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXIV, Figure 3. Ancient work in Greene County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXIV, Figure 4. Ancient work in Greene County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXVI, Figure 1. "The Cross" in Pickaway County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXVI, Figure 3. Ancient work in Fairfield County, Ohio.
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English: Plate XXXVI, Figure 4. Map section of Newark valley.
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English: Plate XXXVII. Ancient works in Wateree, South Carolina.
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English: Plate XXXVIII, Figure 1a. Ancient works on Etowah River, Alabama. The site is now known as Moundville Archaeological Site.
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English: Plate XXXVIII, Figure 1b. Ancient works on Tennessee River, Alabama.
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English: Plate XXXVIII, Figure 2. Ancient works, Chickasaw Surveys, Mississippi.
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English: Plate XXXVIII, Figure 3. Ancient works, Lafayette County, Mississippi.
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English: Plate XXXVIII, Figure 4. Ancient earthworks near Prairie Jefferson and Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. The site is now known as Jordan Mounds.
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English: Plate XXXIX, Figure 2. Ancient work, Bolivar County, Mississippi.
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English: Plate XL. Ancient works, Dade County, Wisconsin.
Plates XLI to XLVIII
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English: Plate XLI, Figure 1. Ancient works, Dade County, Wisconsin.
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English: Plate XLI, Figure 2. Ancient works, Dade County, Wisconsin.
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English: Plate XLII, Figure 1. Ancient works, Dade County, Wisconsin.
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English: Plate XLII, Figure 2. Ancient works, Richland County, Wisconsin.
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English: Plate XLIII, Figure 1. Ancient works, Grant County, Wisconsin.
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English: Plate XLIII, Figures 2–13. Ancient works, various localities.
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English: Plate XLIV, Figure 1. Ancient work on Rock River, Wisconsin.
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English: Plate XLIV, Figures 2–8. Ancient works, various localities.
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English: Plate XLV. A view of the great mound at Marietta.
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English: Plate XLVI. Pottery from the mounds.
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English: Plate XLVII. Crania from the mounds.
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English: Plate XLVIII. Crania from the mounds.
Engravings
[edit]As well as the 48 lithograph plates, the book contained 207 woodcut engravings.
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English: Figure 142, page 243. Human effigy pipe made of hard, compact, black stone, with holes in the headdress for pearls. Excavated from Mound 8 (the "Altar Mound") at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Chillicothe, Ohio.
Unidentified plates and engravings
[edit]These images on Wikimedia Commons have been associated with Squier and Davis, but are not yet attributed to a particular plate or engraving from Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley.