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Speaking with the ancestors : Mississippian stone statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland region /
When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write abo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write about, but having no value to explorers searching for gold or land, there are no records of these idols being transported to the Old World, and mention of them seems to cease about the 1700s. However, with the settling of the fledgling United States in the 1800s, farming colonists began to unearth ston. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817382384 0817382380 0817315950 9780817315955 0817354654 9780817354657 |