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Comments on the Review of “The Effigy Mound Culture of Wisconsin”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

W. C. McKern
W. C. McKern*
Affiliation:
Milwaukee Public Museum Milwaukee, Wisc.
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David Baerreis’ review of The Effigy Mound Culture of Wisconsin, by Chandler Rowe (American Antiquity, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 320–1), includes certain criticisms of methods and procedures underlying the author’s treat’ ment of his subject that raise important questions as to the general status of archaeological concept and methodology.

For example, commenting on Rowe’s rejection of the early guess that effigy mound shapes represent clan symbols, Baerreis appears to argue that at some time, some tribe or tribes could possibly have possessed totemic patterns that might account for effigy mound shapes.

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American Antiquity , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , October 1958 , pp. 191 - 192
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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