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American Landscapes Ser.: Transforming the Landscape : Rock Art and the Mississippean Cosmos by Jan Simek (2018, Trade Paperback)

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TRANSFORMING THE LANDSCAPE: ROCK ART AND THE MISSISSIPPIAN COSMOS (AMERICAN LANDSCAPES) By Carol Diaz-granados & Jan Simek & George Sabo & Mark Wagner **BRAND NEW**.

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PublisherOxbow Books, The Limited

ISBN-101785706284

ISBN-139781785706288

eBay Product ID (ePID)236660936

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTransforming the Landscape : Rock Art and the Mississippean Cosmos

Publication Year2018

SubjectArchaeology, Cosmology, American / General, North America, History / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorJan Simek

Subject AreaArt, Social Science, Science, History

SeriesAmerican Landscapes Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width7.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-935375

ReviewsI commend the editors for their daring vision and timely contribution to American rock art scholarship., ...this is a thought-provoking and informative book on the fascinating subject of rock art in the southeastern United States., The contributors are renowned rock art experts and the book is richly illustrated with color pictures, drawings, and computer enhanced illustrations... it is full of intriguing information and insights on rock art histories, chronologies, settings, and cultural landscape-based interpretations that blend archaeology and both historic and modern ethnography. [T]his book makes a great stride forward in the study of rock art, which is still in need of more research and preservation., Organised into seven though-provoking chapters, each accompanied by high-quality images, this book will be an important contribution into understanding regional rock-art trends in a continent that has a complex, dynamic and distinct range in its rock-art assemblages., This review merely scratches the surface of the complex interactions among people, rock art, and natural and built landscape features explored by the contributors to this volume. Taken together, these works challenge archaeologists to think beyond customarily considered relationships among people, portable objects, and architecture and to consider rock art as one of many contexts through which native peoples of eastern North America expressed their understandings of animate landscapes.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal974.01

Table Of ContentList of Illustration -- Captions, Charts, Tables Preface 1. Materiality and Cultural Landscapes in Native America: George Sabo and Jan Simek Missouri: West Mississippi River Valley 2. The Big Five Petroglyph Sites: Their Place on the Landscape and Relation to Their Creators: James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados 3. 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 4. 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 5. Transformed Spaces: A Landscape Approach to the Rock Art of Illinois: Mark J. Wagner, Kayeleigh Sharp, and Jonathan Remo Appalachian Plateau 6. 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 7. 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 References Index

SynopsisThis new synthesis focuses on the widespread use of cosmograms in the vast repertoire of Mississippian rock art imagery, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, nature, ceremonialism, religion, and a more comprehensive perspective on Mississippian symbolism.., 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., Over the past 25 years, major rock art research has been performed in the North American eastern woodlands - in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and parts of Georgia and North Carolina. Because of the enormity of the eastern landscape and the growing number of rock art sites, the editors of Transforming the Landscape decided to focus in on the topic of cultural landscapes and cosmology - that is, the graphic reflection of beliefs about the cosmos within rock art imagery and how this art is located across a region since, unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. This constitutes a major component of pre-contact petroglyphs and pictographs - and a fascinating one at that. In this beautifully illustrated volume leading rock art specialists cover a wide range of methodologies regarding the placement of rock art on the landscape as well as various approaches to uncovering meaning in the rock art imagery during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Authors discuss compelling connections between the imagery and cultural materials, including oral traditions collected by ethnographers from American Indians in the 19th century and more recently, 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.

LC Classification NumberE99.M6815