Author: R. Clark Mallam
1976, 128 pp.
The Effigy Mound manifestation is both a distinct precontact culture and tradition found primarily in a four state area of the Upper Mississippi River region. It is characterized by effigy and non-effigy shaped mounds, camps, rock shelter, cave, and village sites. Using data from earlier surveys by the Bureau of Ethnology Division of Mound Exploration and the Northwestern Archaeological Survey, Luther College Archaeological Research Center conducted an intensive Effigy Mound survey of northeastern Iowa during the summer of 1973. With this database, an interpretive cultural model was designed to provide the foundation for an interpretation of the Effigy Mound manifestation and an explanation of one aspect of cultural dynamics in the Upper Mississippi River region.
