Alabama once had thousands of mounds built by the ancestors of modern Native American tribes as long ago as 5,000 years. In this full-color guidebook, 23 public and ancient Indian mound sites, stonewall sites, and museums devoted to the mound builders are detailed along with details on 23 other sites and numerous smaller mound sites. The locations and other pertinent details are presented in an alphabetical order along with a map showing all of the public sites. The book also includes detailed site maps of several locations where hundreds of stone mounds and stone walls constructed by ancient Native Americans are found. This revised version of the book contains input and commentary from several prominent Alabama archaeologists and has over 100 photos, maps, and illustrations. Several new artistic site reconstruction illustrations are included in the book consisting of the Bessemer Mounds, Bottle Creek Mounds, Buttahatchee Mounds in Hamilton, Collinsville Mound, Florence Mound, Moundville, and the Skeleton Mountain Snake Effigy.

Native American Mounds in Alabama: An Illustrated Guide to Public Sites, 2nd Edition

History

Little, Gregory L.

Americas

Archetype Books

America’s ancient Mound Builders left behind thousands of pyramid-shaped and conical burial mounds, complex geometric earthworks, effigy mounds, and incredible artifacts depicting mysterious symbols. When the first European explorers began reporting their discovery of these enigmatic structures (over 400 years ago) no one knew who built them. No one seemed to know the meaning of the symbols, and the ritualistic purposes of the complex geometric earthen shapes were a complete mystery. That forgotten knowledge is explained by the decimation of Native American populations by explorers and gold-seeking Spanish conquistadores. Within a generation after the Spanish entered America, Native American populations decreased by over 90 percent from disease and war.It is now known that many ancient earthworks were used to assist souls of the dead in their journey to the sky world and the mysterious symbols were used in rituals by an elite ruling class of priests and chiefs.Souls journeyed to the west where they made a leap of faith to the sky. The souls then made a journey along the Milky Way until they reached the most important spot on the path. This was at the Great Rift of the Milky Way, where they encountered an enigmatic Adversary located at the Constellation of Cygnus. Path of Souls details this amazing death journey and how it was revealed in recent times by archaeologists. It is also thought that the newly revealed Native American death journey explains much about ancient Egyptian ideas of death.Where did these ideas about the death journey come from and when did they arrive in America? Who were the elite rulers of the Mound Builders? Hundreds of newspaper articles from the 1800s and early 1900s reported giant skeletons found in large stone tombs buried deep inside burial mounds. Were these tall leaders the elite? Today the Smithsonian asserts that there we no giants in the ancient world but in their actual published mound excavation reports, they detailed the discovery of many skeletons at least seven feet tall. Path of Souls explores all of these issues and is lavishly illustrated with over 150 maps, photos, and illustrations.

Path of Souls: The Native American Death Journey: Cygnus, Orion, the Milky Way, Giant Skeletons in Mounds, & the Smithsonian

COLLINS, Andrew

Little, Gregory

A primer summarizing how to build a private practice with clients from criminal justice.

How to Establish and Build a Private Counseling Practice: With Criminal Justice Clients

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Little, Dr. Gregory L.

Psychology & Counseling

This is a reprint of the 1984 book, The Archetype Experience. This version also contains additional commentary by the author, partly relevant to the 2022 book Origins of the Gods, coauthored with Andrew Collins. First published in 1984, The Archetype Experience was the initial UFO-related book of a trilogy authored by Greg Little. The book is a followup to Carl Jung’s 1959 book, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky. But the book is only partly about UFOs. It is also about the occult, spiritualism, paranormal phenomena, religion, and the belief that Armageddon is near. It is about the nature of prophecy and the conflict of good and evil.

The Archetype Experience: Resolving the UFO Mystery and the Riddle of Biblical Prophecy Using C. G. Jung's Concept of Synchronicity

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Grand Illusions was initially published in 1994 as the third book on enigmas and bizarre phenomena authored by Gregory L. Little. This reissue contains the full scanned text of the original book plus extensive 2022 commentary by the author. Densely illustrated, with commissioned illustrations by artist and film Director J. Michael McCarthy, the book is an adventure covering sacred ancient sites, crashed saucers, alien abductions, and ancient reports. The books shows how abductions, apparitional phenomena, and the UFO enigma are tied together by the electromagnetic energy spectrum.\nIn Grand Illusions: 
• The Disappearance of the Iron Mountain Boat is Explained 
• How Images of the Dead Emerge From Mirrors 
• Hauntings 
• Science Weighs the Soul 
• Native American Little People 
• The Incubus & Succubus 
• Cattle Mutilations 
• Near Death Experiences 
• How the Great Pyramid Was Used 
• Shamanic Powers Explained 
• What Might Heaven & Hell Really Be

Grand Illusions: The Spectral Reality Underlying Sexual UFO Abductions, Crashed Saucers, Afterlife Experiences, Sacred Ancient Sites, and Other Enigmas

People of the Web: What Indian Mounds, Ancient Rituals, and Stone Circles Tell Us About Modern UFO Abductions, Apparitions, and the Near Death Experience

This ever popular handbook is aimed at students and others who wish to learn the techniques of artefact illustration, regardless of ability or previous experience. It includes comprehensive advice on many aspects of archaeological artefact illustration from equipment and materials to the preparation of finished artwork for printing.

Drawing Archaeological Finds: A Handbook

GRIFFITHS, NICK

Wilson, Christine

Jenner, Anne

Arts & Photography

This book reflects the broad range of research carried out in co-operation between the sciences and the humanities. It deals with studies of specific quarries in ancient Greece and Rome, including trade and archaeological uses of quarried stone in Hungary and France and the Mediterranean area. Other considered topics: Methods of determining the provenance of marble Provenance studies of other stones, such as gypsym, limestone and granite Studies from the New World of pre-Columbian, colonial and modern limestone and marble Importance is also placed on conservation, which is becoming increasingly important as nations world-wide place the highest priority in preserving their cultural heritage.

The Study of Marble and Other Stones Used in Antiquity

Politics & Social Sciences

Maniatis, Yannis

Archaeology

These conference papers record practice and principles at a critical moment in the history of conservation and constitute one of the most important foundational texts about the structural conservation of paintingsin the late twentieth century.

Lining Paintings

Villers, Caroline

History & Criticism

This book contains papers, presented at a conference co-sponsored the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Trust, which address different aspects and problems involved in the conservation of decorative arts.

The Conservation of Decorative Arts

Horie, Velson

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