Show Mound Dwellers The name mound dwellers for want of a better is given to the prehistoric and mythical inhabitants of ot the central central central cen cen- West who antedated the Indians The mounds on which the name is based were parts of fortifications or tombs and their builders are supposed to have been bee remote ancestors of the Indians One authority says The old theory that the mound builders were a distinct race o of highly civilized agriculturists agriculturists agri agri- culturists who had lived from remote q In the regions of the of-the the mounds mounds- aid were eventually exterminated by bOy tie nomadic coming from th the northward represented today by the Indians is no longer supported by ethnologists who hold that the Indians are their descendants Where they came fr from m or how the they got here are matters of speculation |