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Speaking with the ancestors : Mississippian stone statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland region /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Kevin E.
Other Authors: Miller, James V., 1939-2008
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009]
Series:Dan Josselyn memorial publication
Subjects:
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.)
Tennessee River Valley > Antiquities.
Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.) > Antiquities.
Table of 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.