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Ghost Talkers and Puma Men: Adena Totemism and the Shamans of the Early Woodland Period

Jason Jarrell
October
13
/ 2017
A Puma in the night (Public Domain); with ancestor spirits

The people of the Adena Culture are widely regarded as the first builders of mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley.

August
04
/2017
Bellona with Romulus and Remus
Who is Bellona and Was She More Powerful than Mars? Piecing Together the Identity of the Mysterious Ancient Roman Goddess of War
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