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Frank Joseph, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America: The Lost Kingdoms of the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippians and Anasazi Bear & Company, 2009.
First, let me confess that this is a very serious look by a dedicated author that I cannot competently assess. It is a comprehensive but affirmably "unconventional" prehistory that makes a number of claims about the four groups or tribes examined in detail. Those claims are very interesting, but many are new to me. Thus it requires a real expert on Native American cultures, which I am not. Several examples will follow briskly.
What I can do is faithfully describe Joseph's allegations and affirm that he has done a yeoman's job of providing evidence to support them, including classic archaeology but also comparative linguistics between Gaelic and Algonquian (a Plains Indian tribe) and Zuni Indian compared with Japanese. I know none of these languages.
Second, one of Joseph's main theses is that each of these civilizations was animated by infusions of outsiders coming to North America, clashing, merging and no doubt interbreeding with native peoples of longer standing here (usually) building varieties of...