Making pictures in stone : American Indian rock art of the Northeast /

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The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additional invaluable source of information is the interpretation of rock art images and their relationshi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lenik, Edward J., 1932-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Algonquian Indians > Northeastern States > Antiquities.
Petroglyphs > Northeastern States.
Rock paintings > Northeastern States.
Picture-writing > Northeastern States.
Pétroglyphes > États-Unis (Nord-Est)
ART > History > Prehistoric & Primitive.
Algonquian Indians > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Petroglyphs.
Picture-writing.
Rock paintings.
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Northeastern States > Antiquities.
Northeastern States.
USA > Nordoststaaten
Indianer.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Algonquian people in the northeast
  • Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England
  • Culturally altered trees
  • Nonportable rock art sites
  • Landscapes in myths and legends
  • Portable rock art
  • Pendants and gorgets
  • Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles
  • Sculpted heads and effigy faces
  • Decorated stone tools
  • Nonutilitarian effigy stones
  • Dreams, visions, and signs.

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