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The Cosmos Revealed: Precontact Mississippian Rock Art at Painted Bluff, Alabama

Autor Jan F. Simek, Erin E. Dunsmore, Johannes Loubser, Sierra M. Bow Cuvânt înainte de LaDonna Brown Fotograf Alan Cressler
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 feb 2021

Considerăm The Cosmos Revealed prima documentare exhaustivă a sitului Painted Bluff din Alabama, reprezentând o bornă științifică pentru arheologia Americii de Nord. Această ediție sintetizează cercetările începute în 2005 sub egida Tennessee Valley Authority, oferind o analiză tehnică fără precedent asupra celui mai complex ansamblu de artă rupestră preistorică de la răsărit de fluviul Mississippi. Descoperim aici nu doar o inventariere a celor peste 130 de picturi și gravuri, ci și capitole noi dedicate metodologiilor de conservare și restaurare, necesare pentru a inversa degradarea cauzată de vandalismul modern.

Structura volumului urmărește o progresie riguroasă, de la contextul geologic și istoric (capitolele 1-2), la analiza tehnică a stratigrafiei și a compoziției chimice a vopselelor antice (capitolele 5-6). Un element distinctiv este includerea capitolului 8, care documentează procesul laborios de eliminare a graffiti-ului, oferind un studiu de caz esențial pentru managementul patrimoniului cultural. Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de Visualizing the Sacred, adăugând o ancorare geografică specifică și o analiză a culturii materiale care lipsește din studiile iconografice mai generale. În timp ce Rock Art of Kentucky se concentrează pe diversitatea regională a amprentelor și figurilor geometrice, volumul de față aprofundează conceptul de „cosmogram”, demonstrând cum relieful de gresie de la Painted Bluff a fost transformat într-o hartă spirituală a universului Mississippian. Textul beneficiază de 113 ilustrații color și 8 tabele care susțin rigoarea academică a analizei.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780817320850
ISBN-10: 0817320857
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 113 color figures - 19 B&W figures - 4 maps - 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 229 x 305 x 20 mm
Greutate: 1.19 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția University Alabama Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru arheologi și studenții la istorie interesați de cosmologia nativ-americană. Cititorul câștigă acces la un catalog vizual complet al unui sit protejat, înțelegând legătura dintre arta preistorică și structura spirituală a lumii. Este un model de bună practică în documentarea arheologică și conservarea patrimoniului împotriva degradării antropice, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care comunitățile precontact materializau invizibilul prin artă.


Despre autor

Jan F. Simek, Erin E. Dunsmore, Johannes Loubser și Sierra M. Bow sunt cercetători și arheologi de renume, specializați în studiul preistoriei Americii de Nord. Jan F. Simek este cunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale extinse în arheologia peșterilor și a artei rupestre din sud-estul Statelor Unite. Echipa a colaborat strâns cu Tennessee Valley Authority și cu reprezentanți ai națiunilor tribale (precum LaDonna Brown din Națiunea Chickasaw) pentru a asigura o perspectivă etică și multidisciplinară. Expertiza lor combină analiza geologică, chimia pigmenților și interpretarea culturală, definind noi standarde în documentarea siturilor sacre.


Descriere scurtă

The definitive rock art book on Painted Bluff, Alabama and the visual language of a Native American cosmos.
Boasting more than 130 paintings and engravings, Painted Bluff is perhaps the most elaborate prehistoric pictograph site east of the Mississippi River. Positioned at several levels on a dramatic sandstone cliff along the Tennessee River in northern Alabama, the spectacular paintings and engravings depict mythical creatures, dancing humans, and mystical portals. The Cosmos Revealed: Precontact Mississippian Rock Art at Painted Bluff, Alabama is the first complete documentation of one of the most important archaeological sites in eastern North America. Through art, the site materializes a model or “cosmogram” of the Mississippian Native American view of the universe, offering connections between the visible and invisible worlds for Native spiritual leaders and other visitors.
Discovered by Euro-Americans in the early 1800s, the site became known as “Painted Bluff” because of its pictographs, but inexplicably it has only recently been subjected to the intensive archaeological study it deserves. Under the auspices of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the authors of this volume have documented and assessed the site since 2005, and efforts have been made to reverse some of the vandalism that has occurred over many decades and to stabilize natural degradation of the cliff and its artwork.
Including more than one hundred remarkable prehistoric paintings on the cliff face that have been recorded, mapped, and photographed, this book synthesizes the research done on Painted Bluff to date and documents the entire site. Richly illustrated chapters cover the historical background, geology and archaeology, documentation methods, types of rock art, stratigraphy, paint recipes, TVA management, graffiti removal, and a summary that broadly synthesizes the meaning, timeframe, artistry, organization, conceptual boundaries, and the cosmos revealed. This groundbreaking study features 113 color photographs and a complete catalog of the pictographs and petroglyphs at the site.
 

Notă biografică

Jan F. Simek is Distinguished Professor of Science in the anthropology department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and president emeritus of the University of Tennessee. He has carried out extensive research in Paleolithic caves in Europe. Since 1992, he has directed fieldwork at prehistoric cave art sites in the Southeast as leader of the University of Tennessee Cave Archaeology Research Team. His work at Painted Bluff dates to 2005. He has coauthored numerous articles and book chapters on cave art.
Erin E. Dunsmore is senior archaeological specialist with the Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville. She is involved with site management and protection and is a rock art expert at the agency. She is coeditor of TVA Archaeology: Seventy-Five Years of Prehistoric Site Research.
Johannes Loubser is an archaeologist and rock art specialist at Stratum Unlimited, Alpharetta, Georgia. He was trained in rock art analysis in South Africa, where he has done a substantial amount of basic research. He is expert in the assessment and conservation of damaged rock art sites.
Sierra M. Bow is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She studies the chemistry and technology of precontact paints in the Southeast.
Alan Cressler is a hydrologic technician at the US Geological Survey and a renowned photographer specializing in natural history and prehistory as well as a cave explorer who has visited more than 5,000 caves worldwide. He has been the principal photographer for the University of Tennessee Cave Archaeology Research Team for two decades.

Cuprins

Foreword by LaDonna Brown
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Painted Bluff and the Power of Place
     Chapter 1. Historical Background of Painted Bluff
     Chapter 2. The Geology and Archaeology of Painted Bluff
     Chapter 3. Methods for Documenting the Painted Bluff Rock Art
     Chapter 4. The Rock Art of Painted Bluff
     Chapter 5. Rock Art Stratigraphy at Painted Bluff
     Chapter 6. Ancient Paint Recipes at Painted Bluff
     Chapter 7. The Tennessee Valley Authority Management of Painted Bluff
     Chapter 8. Graffiti Removal at Painted Bluff
     Chapter 9. Materializing the Natural and Spiritual Worlds at Painted Bluff
References Cited
Index

Recenzii

“The Cosmos Revealed sets a new standard for what a contemporary monograph on a rock art site should be: we have a detailed historical account, excellent description, the latest in pigment analyses, native voices, rich ethnographic contexts, credible interpretive insights, substantive consideration of preservation and conservation issues and actions, and a wealth of detail in an accessible written format that just invites a vision of not just the imagery but the makers and their worlds. Bravo to a superb collaborative effort put together in an admirable publication!” —Margaret W. Conkey, coeditor of Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory
“The Cosmos Revealed is a richly detailed account of a state-of-the-art multi-faceted research project. The results are impressive, as is this report, which provides a readable and thought-provoking account of the project. It is a very important contribution to rock art research.”—American Archaeology

 

“Provides extremely thorough, state-of-the-art research on a well-known and very important site by providing a detailed empirical account, combined with a well-supported and logical symbolic interpretation.”—David S. Whitely, author of Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of Creativity and Belief

“The Cosmos Revealed is a landmark synthesis of one of the Native South’s most unusual and intriguing archaeological sites. The authors provide a richly detailed account of this rock art complex, including its history, preservation, and meaning.”—Thomas J. Pluckhahn, author of Kolomoki: Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750
 

Descriere

The Cosmos Revealed: Precontact Mississippian Rock Art at Painted Bluff, Alabama offers the first comprehensive exploration of one of the most extraordinary prehistoric art sites in North America. Combining archaeology, anthropology, history, geology, and Indigenous cultural interpretation, the authors illuminate how Painted Bluff's remarkable pictographs and petroglyphs materialized a sophisticated Mississippian vision of the cosmos. Richly illustrated and grounded in decades of research, this landmark study provides an unparalleled resource for scholars, students, and readers interested in Native American heritage, rock art, archaeology, and the sacred landscapes of the American Southeast.