Our Hidden Landscapes

Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Challenging traditional and long-standing understandings, this volume provides an important new lens for interpreting stone structures that had previously been attributed to settler colonialism. Instead, the contributors to this volume argue that these locations are sacred Indigenous sites.This volume introduces readers to eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes (CSLs)--sacred sites whose principal identifying characteristics are built stone structures that cluster within specific physical landscapes. Our Hidden Landscapes presents these often unrecognized sites as significant cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation.In this book, Native American authors provide perspectives on the cultural meaning and significance of CSLs and their characteristics, while professional archaeologists and anthropologists provide a variety of approaches for better understanding, protecting, and preserving them. The chapters present overwhelming evidence in the form of oral tradition, historic documentation, ethnographies, and archaeological research that these important sites created and used by Indigenous peoples are deserving of protection.This work enables archaeologists, historians, conservationists, foresters, and members of the general public to recognize these important ritual sites.ContributorsNohham Rolf Cachat-SchillingRobert DeFossesJames GageMary GageDoug HarrisJulia A. KingLucianne LavinJohannes (Jannie) H. N. LoubserFrederick W. MartinNorman MullerCharity Moore NortonPaul A. RobinsonLaurie W. RushScott M. StricklandElaine ThomasKathleen Patricia ThraneMatthew Victor Weiss

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-31
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNative Peoples of the Americas
Antal sidor384
FörlagUniversity of Arizona Press
ISBN9780816550876

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Lucianne Lavin is an archaeologist, a director emeritus of research and collections at the Institute for American Indian Studies Museum in Connecticut, and the author of Connecticut’s Indigenous Peoples.Elaine Thomas is a Mohegan tribal member and has worked in the Mohegan Tribal Government for twenty-two years. She works with tribal nations in identifying and preserving ceremonial stone landscapes.

ContentsForeword by Laurie WeinsteinIntroduction—Lucianne Lavin and Elaine ThomasPart I. Indigenous Perspectives on the Meaning and Significance of Ceremonial Stone Landscapes1. When the Landscape Speaks for Itself, What Do We Learn?—Doug Harris2. Markings of Ancestral Pathways: A Native Perspective—Elaine Thomas3. Unseen Borders and Ways of Knowing: Northeastern Algonquian Sacred Lands—Nohham Rolf Cachat-SchillingPart II. Academic Perspectives on Understanding, Protecting, and Preserving Indigenous Ceremonial Stone Landscapes4. Obligations of Place: Engaging with Tribal Historic Preservation Offices in New England to Preserve and Protect Ceremonial Stone Landscapes—Paul A. Robinson5. “So You Believe in Aliens, Too?” An Anthropologist Looks at Stone Features in the North American Northeast and the Archaeologists Who Do and Do Not Study Them—Laurie W. Rush6. Introduction to Stone Removal and Disposal Practices in Agriculture and Farming—James E. Gage7. Ceremonial Landscapes in the Chesapeake—Julia A. King and Scott M. Strickland8. Stones and Their Places: An Application of Landscape Theory to Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of West Virginia—Matthew Victor Weiss and Charity Moore Norton9. Piled Stone Features of Jackson County, Georgia—Johannes H. N. LoubserPart III. Case Studies of Ceremonial Stone Landscapes10. A Sacred Space on a Hilltop in Harwinton, Connecticut—Robert DeFosses11. Interpreting Row-Linked Boulder Sites from Georgia to New England—Norman Muller12. Historic Ceremonial Structures—Mary Gage13. A Theoretical Model of the Moon and the Milky Way at Ancient Meeting Places—Frederick W. Martin14. Mythologies of Light and Cast Shadow Within Northeastern Stone Chambers—Kathleen Patricia ThraneContributorsIndexContents