Mound Builders Basket Baby Cradles

Mound Builders Baby Cradles

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That cradles of textile construction were used by the mound-builders may be taken for granted. The following is from Du Pratz, who is speaking of the work of the inhabitants of the lower Mississippi:

This cradle is about two feet and a half long, nine inches broad. It is skillfully made of straight canes of the length desired for the cradle, and at the end they are cut in half and doubled under to form the foot. The whole is only half a foot high. This cradle is very light, weighing only two pounds. * * * The infant being rocked lengthwise, its head is not shaken as are those who are rocked from side to side, as in France. * * * The cradle is rocked by means of two ends of canes, which make two rollers.

Neanderthals Hybrids Discovered in Wisconsin

Evidence of humans and Neanderthal mating are found with the Wisconsin mound builders. Wisconsin Mound Builder's Skull from Burial Mound in Racine Wisconsin. Like many of the skulls found in this region, it has many qualities that could be considered "archaic."  Sloping forehead, facial prognathism, and a mental foreman that is located under the first molar.

Wisconsin mound builder skull from a burial mound in Racine. The skull type has all of the characteristics to be considered, "Archaic, " which was more common to the Neanderthals.

Male and female skulls from Wisconsin showing "archaic" skull attributes of a furrowed brow, sloping forehead and a lack of chin on the female to the right.  

The newspaper article that describes a find of these same Neanderthal hybrids.  This type of skull was common across the Great Lakes region and the coastal areas of North America.  They represent the migration of the Maritime Archaic from Europe and Asia.

The Complete Story of How Neanderhal Hybrids Came to North America