The rock-art of eastern North America : capturing images and insight / edited by Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan.

The rock-art of eastern North America : capturing images and insight / edited by Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan.

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In archaeology, rock-artany long-lasting marking made on a natural surfaceis similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology at that site. Petroglyphs, pictographs, and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) have been discovered and recorded througho...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Diaz-Granados, Carol, 1943- (Editor) Duncan, James Richard, 1942- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > East (U.S.) > Antiquities.
Petroglyphs > East (U.S.)
Rock paintings > East (U.S.)
Picture-writing > East (U.S.)
East (U.S.) > Antiquities.
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Table of Contents:
  • Native American dendroglyphs of the Eastern Woodlands / Fred E. Coy, Jr.
  • Ratcliffe Sacred Rock and the Seven Sacred Stones, Iowa / Lori A. Stanley
  • Mississippian cosmology and rock-art at the Millstone Bluff Site, Illinois / Mark J. Wagner, Mary R. McCorvie and Charles A. Swedlund
  • Pica, geophagy, and rock-art in the eastern United States / Kevin L. Callahan
  • On the edges of the world : prehistoric open-air rock-art in Tennessee / Charles H. Faulkner, Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler
  • Rock-art and late Woodland settlement in the northern Ozarks / Richard Edging and Steven R. Ahler
  • Pattern and function at the Jeffers Petroglyphs, Minnesota / Robert Alan Clouse
  • Elemental forms of rock-art and the peopling of the Americas / Jack Steinbring
  • Reflections of power, wealth, and sex in Missouri rock-art motifs / Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan
  • Association between a Southeastern rock-art motif and mortuary caves / Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler and Elayne Pope
  • Farming, gender, and shifting social organization : a new approach to understanding Kentucky's rock-art / Cecil R. Ison
  • Empowering the SECC : the "old woman" and oral tradition / James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados
  • Recordation, conservation, and management of rock imagery at Samuel's Cave, Wisconsin / Johannes H.N. Loubser and Robert F. Boszhardt
  • Rock-art sites on the Susquehanna River / Paul Nevin
  • The South Carolina rock-art survey / Tommy Charles
  • The Peterborough petroglyphs : Native or Norse? / Joan M. Vastokas
  • The Bald Friar petroglyphs of Maryland : threatened, rescued, lost, and found / Edward J. Lenik
  • Clift's Rock : Unionism and the Civil War in east Tennessee/ Rex Weeks.
  • Passamaquoddy shamanism and rock-art in Machias Bay, Maine / Mark Hedden
  • Analyzing and dating the Nisula Site, Québec / Daniel Arsenault.

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