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The main points of this 1980 documentary featured as part of the PBS series Odyssey are summarized in a paper consisting of three pages. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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in which large mounds were created in the earth for various purposes spread from West Virginia into the Midwest and the Mississippi River Valley. This mysterious race of people,
known collectively as the moundbuilders, seemed to disappear as quickly as their civilization emerged. By the nineteenth century, the thousands of earthen mounds these builders left behind were believed
to be remnants of a lost master race. The conclusion at the time was that the uncivilized Native Americans must have been responsible for their annihilation (Documentary films: Myths
and the moundbuilders, 2007). In 1980, the PBS series Odyssey presented director Graham Chedd and executive producer Michael Ambrosinos hour-long documentary on this archaeological mystery entitled Myths and the
Moundbuilders. The film was an attempt to separate fact from fiction, to draw some conclusions as to what the mounds represented to this civilization, and to educate students on
archaeologys complex social and scientific processes of discovery. The documentary showed how by the late-nineteenth century, people began speculating that descendents of these peoples might still be occupying parts of
the central United States, such as Natchez, Mississippi (Documentary films: Myths and the moundbuilders, 2007). The filmmakers attempt to piece together this historical puzzle dating back to the novice
citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Valley archaeological teams of researchers. The documentary reveals that there was not a single culture as originally thought, but
two cultures associated with this civilization. The early Hopewell culture lasted from between 300 B.C. to 300 A.D. and the Mississippian culture, which reportedly peaked around 1200 A.D. (Documentary
films: Myths and the moundbuilders, 2007). The archaeologists compared the differences in mound construction. The Hopewell mounds are characteristically earthen, conical in shape, and are believed to have
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