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There are references in 'Legend Of The Sons Of God' to North American mound builders who constructed numerous animal shaped mounds to the south and west of the Great Lakes.

Are there any good references available to these sites (book or www).

In 1972 Lethbridge says "the Indians had no idea who made them" though archeological science may have opened doors to attempts at dating these sites that were not available 34 years ago.

Lethbridge seems to like toying with the ancient lost civilisation concept and with the idea of inter-planetary human breeding while the author of a Wikipedia entry says that the failure to credit at least one of these sites to the indigenous tribes was simply down to the racism and colonial expediency of early European settlers.

Anyone got any pointers?

Thanks.

Hi IanB

I don't know much about the Indian Mounds, but I could waffle about Lethbridge forever and a day! Welcome to TMA.

I don't think Lethbridge actually believed what he conjectured in The Legend of the Sons of God to be an absolute truth. In fact he didn't seem to think anything he proposed was a truth, just a possibility that no one had yet proved right or wrong.

Do you know this website - The Sons of TC Lethbridge?

Hi Ian

One of the classic works on this subject (I think long out of print) is Squier & Davis' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848) which explores many of the great Indian mounds. A more up-to-date survey was the one done by Sue Woodward & Jerry McDonald, called Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley. (1986) I know there's many more all over the US, but I don't know many other surveys. Paul Devereux describes them and some recent anthropology ideas about them in Earth Memory and Mysterious Ancient America. Check 'em out on eBay.

As for TC's Legends o' t' Sons of God - givvit a miss. Daftest thing he ever wrote - though such ideas were in vogue at the time.

Cheers - Paul

I was hoping someone else would come up with THE classic :- http://www.textbookx.com/detail-book-0817350861-The_Mound_Builders_A_Reconstruction_of_the_Life_of_a_Prehistoric_American_Race,_Through_Exploration_and_Interpretation_of_Their_Earth_Mounds,_Their_Burials,_and_Their_cu.html is probably the one you want
For a history of their exploration http://www.textbookx.com/detail-book-0821408399-The_Mound_Builders.html
http://www.textbookx.com/detail-book-059530561X-The_Mound_Builders_of_Ancient_North_America_4000_Years_of_American_Indian_Art,_Science,_Engineering,_&_Spirituality_Reflected_in_Majestic_Earthworks_&_Artifacts.html sounds like a New Age view (hardback http://www.textbookx.com/detail-book-0595661815-The_Mound_Builders_of_Ancient_North_America_4000_Years_of_American_Indian_Art,_Science,_Engineering,_&_Spirituality_Reflected_in_Majestic_Earthworks.html)