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Author:   Carol Diaz-Granados
Publisher:   Casemate Publishers
Imprint:   Casemate Publishers
Volume:   9
ISBN:  

9798888570425

Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors_x000D_ _x000D_ Preface_x000D_ _x000D_ 1. I Thoughts and ideas on how iconography works ÔÇô a basic primer on how to do iconography_x000D_ _x000D_ Carol Diaz-Granados _x000D_ _x000D_ 2. SON OF THE SUN: Iconography in rock art and artifacts that reveals important associations between symbolism associated with Dhegiha religion, celestial bodies and Western Mississippian Ideology_x000D_ _x000D_ James R. Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados Vestiges of the Birdman at Etowah_x000D_ _x000D_ Vestiges of the First Man Lineage at Etowah (Georgia)_x000D_ _x000D_ Adam King_x000D_ _x000D_ 4. The House Between Life and Death: Interpretations About the Organization of Mound 3 at the Lake Jackson Site _x000D_ _x000D_ J. Grant Stauffer_x000D_ _x000D_ 5. Effigy mounds and rock art of midcontinental North America: Shared iconography, shared stories_x000D_ _x000D_ Bradley T. Lepper, Robert F. Boszhardt, James R. Duncan, and Carol Diaz-Granados (reprint from North American Archaeologist, with permission) _x000D_ _x000D_ 6. ÔÇ£Paired Figures Confronting a Forked Pole:ÔÇØ So WhatÔÇÖs Up with the Forked Pole?_x000D_ _x000D_ George Sabo III and Alex W. Barker_x000D_ _x000D_ 7. The Hero Twins in the Lower Mississippi Valley_x000D_ _x000D_ David H. Dye _x000D_ _x000D_ 8. Arguments for the Age of Serpent Mound_x000D_ _x000D_ Bradley T. Lepper, James R. Duncan, Carol Diaz-Granados, Tod Frolking (reprint from Cambridge Archaeological Journal, with permission)_x000D_ _x000D_ 9. Contextualizing Mississippian Statuary from the Mississippi/Ohio River Confluence _x000D_ _x000D_ Steven L. Boles_x000D_ _x000D_ 10. The Great Importance of the Great Serpent_x000D_ _x000D_ James R. Duncan_x000D_ _x000D_ Index

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"""Those who follow the recent tacks and swerves in the interpretation of Mississippian-era symbolism will want to add this moderately priced volume to their libraries.""-- ""Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology"""

"""Those who follow the recent tacks and swerves in the interpretation of Mississippian-era symbolism will want to add this moderately priced volume to their libraries.""-- ""Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 79, Number 4, 2023"""

Author Information

Carol Diaz-Granados is a professional archaeologist and Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St Louis, where she has lectured for 39 years. Her major research focus is American Indian rock art, symbolism, and iconography, and associated oral traditions. Carol has written, edited, or co-edited five books, including Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos (co-edited with Jan Simek, George Sabo, and Mark Wagner, Oxbow Books, 2018). Her 2004 volume, Rock-Art of Eastern North America (co-edited with James R. Duncan) won a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award.

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