Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...same mound were found the bones of a dog. This discovery of the skeleton of a dog is confirmatory of the existence of the domestic dog in America before European contact. The Indian dog of historic times is evidently the descendant of this prehistoric variety...
However, Dr. Doerpfeld continued the work of excavation and found three more cities. Dr. Schliemann in his investigations had overlooked the shell which had been left in excavating the mound. This was dug into by Dr. Doerpfeld and the other cities disclosed. These were built in the years from 3000 B. C. down to the time of Augustus...
...Atlantic and down the coast to the Carolinas. Another migration seems to have started in the Pueblo region and sent off-shoots, possibly at intervals of hundreds or thousands of years, north to the neighborhood of Utah and northeast to the Great Lakes. Of the latter branch were the mound builders of Ohio. The people of the northwest give indications of Asiatic admixture, and those of the southern migration are somewhat like the inhabitants of the south Pacific islands. These facts give some strength to the theories of the origin of the earliest tribes. On the eastern coast...
...greater part of the Mound builder and Central American collections will be gathered expressly for the purpose although specimens from the Harvard Museums will be transported if required...
...fence will surround the field on three sides and the railroad embankment, which forms the boundary on the fourth side will be sodded and made as attractive as possible. There is a mound near the entrance which will be terraced so that teams can drive upon it. This will serve as a natural grand stand. The field has already been surveyed and as soon as possible final plans will be made and placed on exhibition for the benefit of the students...