Record #:

10808

Author(s):

Chapman, Ashton

Abstract:

Various authorities including the latest edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, now agree that a considerable amount of sheet mica from the North Carolina mountains eventually ended up in ancient burial mounds in southern Ohio. The mound builders were once considered a separate race that pre-dated the Indians, whom the earliest white explorers found on the North American continent. Anthropologists now believe that these mound builders were actually ancestors of the tribes who were found occupying the land when Columbus arrived.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 36 Issue 18, Feb 1969, p13-14, il

Subject(s):

Mica mines and mining--North Carolina, Western; Hopewell culture