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Picture Cave : Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos / edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III ; foreword by Patty Jo Watson ; photographs of Picture Cave by Alan Cressler.
Penn Museum Library E99.M6815 P53 2015
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LIBRA E99.M6815 P53 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
- The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Picture-writing.
- Picture Cave (Mo.).
- Mississippian culture.
- Mississippian art.
- Indian cosmology.
- Rock paintings--Missouri--Picture Cave.
- Rock paintings.
- Missouri--Picture Cave.
- Picture-writing--Missouri--Picture Cave.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction to Picture Cave and the Picture Cave Interdisciplinary Project / Carol Diaz-Granados
- "Tracings in the idleness of art" : Picture Cave in the context of Southeast prehistoric cave art / Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler
- The geology and ecology of Picture Cave / Philip W. Newell
- Geochemical analyses of prehistoric pigment materials from Picture Cave / Sarah A. Blankenship
- AMS radiocarbon dates for charcoal from three pictographs and their associated iconography / Carol Diaz-Granados, Marvin W. Rowe, Marian Hyman, James R. Duncan, and John R. Southon
- Documenting spatial order in the pictograph panels of Picture Cave / Jan F. Simek, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Alan Cressler, and Sarah A. Blankenship
- The origins of Picture Cave : an essay on the artists/priests who made the drawings, as interpreted from the salvaged cultural materials / James R. Duncan
- Tradition and horizons in southeastern representation : lessons from Picture Cave / James A. Brown and Jon Muller
- The black warrior pictograph : dating and interpretation / James R. Duncan, Marvin W. Rowe, Carol Diaz-Granados, Karen L. Steelman, and Tom Guilderson
- The cave and the beneath world spirit : mythic dragons from the North American past / F. Kent Reilly III
- The cave, Cahokia, and the Omaha tribe / Richard F. Townsend
- Mortal combat, sacred narratives, and symbolic weaponry : Mississippian culture heroes in Picture Cave / David H. Dye
- The spider in the cave / Kathryn Red Corn
- Transmogrification, healing, and resurrection : extraordinary themes in Picture Cave / Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan
- Color symbolism and preliminary assessment of styles at Picture Cave / Carol Diaz-Granados
- Visions in Picture Cave / George E. Lankford
- Identifying the characters on the walls of Picture Cave / James R. Duncan
- The first man was an artist : meditations on a prehistoric Mississippian cave / Pala Townsend
- Layered pictures, layered stories, layered lives / Anita Fields
- Interviews in Picture Cave and Osage commentary / William Samuel Fletcher, Osage Elder (Hominy, Oklahoma), Alma Jean Maker, Osage Elder (Pawhuska, Oklahoma), Charles Red Corn, Osage Elder (Norman, Oklahoma)
- The future of Picture Cave / Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III, and Jan Simek
- Appendix: Illustrated catalogue of Picture Cave art / Alan Cressler and Jan F. Simek.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780292761339
- 0292761333
- OCLC:
- 886878564
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