Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America write by Cheryl Claassen. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Claassen’s work focuses on the American Archaic period (marked by the end of the Ice Age approximately 11,000 years ago) and a geographic area bounded by the edge of the Great Plains, Newfoundland, and southern Florida. This period and region share specific beliefs and practices such as human sacrifice, dirt mound burial, and oyster shell middens. This interpretive guide serves as a platform for new interpretations and theories on this period. For example, Claassen connects rituals to topographic features and posits the Pleistocene-Holocene transition as a major stimulus to Archaic beliefs. She also expands the interpretation of existing data previously understood in economic or environmental terms to include how this same data may also reveal spiritual and symbolic practices. Similarly, Claassen interprets Archaic culture in terms of human agency and social constraint, bringing ritual acts into focus as drivers of social transformation and ethnogenesis.
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America write by Cheryl Claassen. This book was released on 2023-03-31. Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages, the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and meaning of the rites. They also provide comments on the end or failure of rites and cults from Paleoindian into post-DeSoto years. Chapters examine the archaeological records of Cahokia, the lower Ohio Valley, Aztalan Wisconsin, Vermont, Florida, and Georgia, and others scan the Eastern US, investigating tobacco/datura, color symbolism, deer symbolism, mound stratigraphy, flintknapping, stone caching, cults and their organization, and red ochre. These authors collectively query the beliefs that can be gleaned from mortuary practices and their variation, from mound construction, from imagery, from the choice of landscape setting. While some rituals were short-lived, others can be shown to span millennia as the ritual specialists modified their interpretations and introduced innovations.
The Archaeology of Ancient North America
The Archaeology of Ancient North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology of Ancient North America write by Timothy R. Pauketat. This book was released on 2020-02-27. The Archaeology of Ancient North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unlike extant texts, this textbook treats pre-Columbian Native Americans as history makers who yet matter in our contemporary world.
A New History of the American South
A New History of the American South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New History of the American South write by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. This book was released on 2023-03-15. A New History of the American South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present. This groundbreaking work draws on both well-established and new currents in scholarship, among them global and Atlantic world history, histories of African diaspora, and environmental history. The volume also considers the experiences of all people of the South: Black, white, Indigenous, female, male, poor, and elite. Together, the essays compose a seamless, cogent, and engaging work that can be read cover to cover or sampled at leisure. Contributors are Peter A. Coclanis, Gregory P. Downs, Laura F. Edwards, Robbie Ethridge, Kari Frederickson, Paul Harvey, Kenneth R. Janken, Martha S. Jones, Blair L. M. Kelley, Kate Masur, Michael A. McDonnell, Scott Reynolds Nelson, James D. Rice, Natalie J. Ring, and Jon F. Sensbach.
MYSTERY STONE FROM THE SHENANDOAH
MYSTERY STONE FROM THE SHENANDOAH - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook MYSTERY STONE FROM THE SHENANDOAH write by Michael A. Susko. This book was released on 2022-01-01. MYSTERY STONE FROM THE SHENANDOAH available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Near Holy Cross Abbey, Virginia, a beautiful tablet-like stone has been found by the Shenandoah River. Under its brown-orange patina, peck-marked shapes reveal a crystalline heartstone and intriguing designs. While a variety of opinions have been offered by experts on the origin of the designs, the author takes you on a tour so you can make your own judgement. Findings reveal aesthetic proportions and intriguing gestalts which resonate with Eastern Woodland cosmology of early America. These include archetypes of the avian-man, skeletal and twinned shaman, earth mother, and a cosmology which shows a three-layered and four-cornered world. With an abundance of imagery supported by commentary, this "mystery stone" illustrates the Indigenous way of viewing the universe, and one that can enrich our lives.
