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Author Smith, Kevin E.

Title Speaking with the ancestors : Mississippian stone statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland region / Kevin E. Smith and James V. Miller
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Contents Mississippian stone sculpture -- Tennessee-Cumberland style Mississippian stone statuary -- The middle Tennessee heartland -- The north Georgia heartland -- The Tennessee periphery -- Ohio and Mississippi Valley statuary -- The statuary complex and ancestor veneration -- Appendix A. Tabular summaries of statue characteristics -- Appendix B. Two fakes and some odds and ends
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index
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Subject Mississippian culture -- Tennessee River Valley
Mississippian culture -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
Figurines, Prehistoric -- Tennessee River Valley
Figurines, Prehistoric -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
Stone carving -- Tennessee River Valley
Stone carving -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Antiquities
Figurines, Prehistoric
Mississippian culture
Stone carving
SUBJECT Tennessee River Valley -- Antiquities
Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.) -- Antiquities
Subject United States -- Cumberland River Valley
United States -- Tennessee River Valley
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, James V., 1939-2008.
ISBN 9780817382384
0817382380
0817315950
9780817315955
0817354654
9780817354657