Transforming the landscape rock art and the Mississippian cosmos / edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George Sabo III, and Mark Wagner.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2018. |
| Description | xv, 272 pages illustrations (some color), maps 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Diaz-Granados, Carol, 1943. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjyqjRPphc9VGphQHrtGDy. |
| Other author/creator | Simek, Jan F. |
| Other author/creator | Sabo, George. |
| Other author/creator | Wagner, Mark J. |
| Portion of title | Rock art and the Mississippian cosmos |
| Series | American landscapes ; [volume 4] American Landscapes (Series) ; v. 4. ^A1287439 |
| Contents | Materiality and cultural landscapes in Native America / George Sabo III and Jan Simek -- Missouri: West Mississippi River Valley. The Big Five petroglyph sites: their place on the landscape and relation to their creators / James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados ; Landscape, cosmology, and the Old Woman: a strong feminine presence / James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados -- Arkansas: Ozark Escarpment west of the Mississippi River. Petroglyphs, portals, and people along the Eastern Ozark Escarpment, Arkansas / George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, Jami J. Lockhart, and Leslie C. Walker -- Illinois: East Mississippi River Valley. Transformed spaces: a landscape approach to the rock art of Illinois / Mark J. Wagner, Kayeleigh Sharp, and Jonathan Remo -- Appalachian Plateau. Prehistoric rock art, social boundaries, and cultural landscapes on the Cumberland Plateau of southeast North America / Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, and B. Bart Henson -- Appalachian Mountains. Betwixt and between: the occurrence of petroglyphs between townhouses of the living and townhouses of spirit beings in northern Georgia and western North Carolina / Johannes Loubser, Scott Ashcraft, James Wettstaed. |
| Abstract | "This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus is on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, ceremonialism, and religion. It also provides a unified, comprehensive perspective on Mississippian symbolism. A selection of landscape cosmograms from various parts of North America and Europe taken from the ethnographic records are examined and an overview of American Indian cosmographic landscapes provided to illustrate their centrality to indigenous religious traditions across North America. Authors discuss what a cosmogram-based approach can teach us about people, places, and past environments and what it may reveal that more conventional approaches overlook. Geographical variations across the landscape, regional similarities, and derived meaning found in these data are described. The authors also consider the difficult subject of how to develop a more detailed chronology for eastern rock art." Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-264) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018935375 |
| ISBN | 9781785706288 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (digital) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |