Speaking with the ancestors [electronic resource] : Mississippian stone statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland region / Kevin E. Smith and James V. Miller.
Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.Description: xvii, 234 p. : illISBN:- 9780817315955 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817354657 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780817382384 (electronic)
- 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
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- E99.M6815 S67 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.