Picture Cave : Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Diaz-Granados, Carol, 1943- (Editor), Duncan, James Richard, 1942- (Editor), Reilly, F. Kent (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
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Table of 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.