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Author: Fred E. CoyJr. Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813158389 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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Rock Art of Kentucky is the first comprehensive documentation of the fragile remnants of Kentucky's prehistoric Native American rock art sites. Found in twenty-two of Kentucky's counties, these sites pan a period of more than three thousand years. The most frequent design elements in Kentucky rock art are engravings of the footprints of birds, quadrupeds, and humans. Other design elements include anthropomorphs, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and abstract and geometric figures. Included in the book are stunning illustrations of the sixty confirmed sites and ten destroyed or questionable sites. In the thirty some years during which this information was collected, there has been an alarming deterioration of many of the sites. Ancient carvings have been destroyed by graffiti or have lost extensive detail because of climatic or environmental conditions, such as acid rain. Although all the Kentucky sites are officially listed on the National register of Historic Places, several no long exist or are at present inaccessible. In addition to making data available for the first time to the national and international archaeological community for further comparative and interpretive studies, Rock Art of Kentucky is also for nonspecialists interested in prehistoric Kentucky and Native American studies.
Author: Fred E. CoyJr. Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813158389 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
Rock Art of Kentucky is the first comprehensive documentation of the fragile remnants of Kentucky's prehistoric Native American rock art sites. Found in twenty-two of Kentucky's counties, these sites pan a period of more than three thousand years. The most frequent design elements in Kentucky rock art are engravings of the footprints of birds, quadrupeds, and humans. Other design elements include anthropomorphs, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and abstract and geometric figures. Included in the book are stunning illustrations of the sixty confirmed sites and ten destroyed or questionable sites. In the thirty some years during which this information was collected, there has been an alarming deterioration of many of the sites. Ancient carvings have been destroyed by graffiti or have lost extensive detail because of climatic or environmental conditions, such as acid rain. Although all the Kentucky sites are officially listed on the National register of Historic Places, several no long exist or are at present inaccessible. In addition to making data available for the first time to the national and international archaeological community for further comparative and interpretive studies, Rock Art of Kentucky is also for nonspecialists interested in prehistoric Kentucky and Native American studies.
Author: Fred E. Coy, Jr., Thomas C. Fuller, Larry G. Meadows, James F. Swauger Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813128405 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 198
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" Following the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1942, North Luzon was the staging area for several Filipino-American guerrilla bands who sought to gather intelligence and to destroy enemy military installations or supplies. Bernard Norling focuses on the Cagayan-Apayao Forces, or CAF, commanded by Maj. Ralph Praeger. Their bravery was unquestionable, but by September 1943 all but one member of Troop C had been claimed by combat, enemy capture, or disease. The only survivor, Capt. Thomas S. Jones, remembered, ""Defeat is a terrible thing. . . . It brings down with it the whole structure about which a nation or an army has been built. It subjects men to the most severe of moral tests at a time when they are physically least able to meet them."" Based primarily upon unpublished sources, The Intrepid Guerrillas of North Luzon includes the diary of Praeger's executive officer, Jones, and draws on transcripts of radio communications between Praeger and General MacArthur's headquarters in Australia. The struggles of the men of the CAF tell a harrowing tale of valor, determination, and occasional successes mixed with the wildcat schemes, rivalries, mistrust, and betrayals that characterized the intramural relations of guerrilla forces all over the Pacific islands.
Author: Carol Diaz-Granados Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817350969 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 458
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Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in twelve states and four Canadian provinces In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology at that site. Petroglyphs, pictographs, and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) have been discovered and recorded throughout the eastern woodlands of North America on boulders, bluffs, and trees, in caves and in rock shelters. These cultural remnants scattered on the landscape can tell us much about the belief systems of the inhabitants that left them behind. The Rock-Art of Eastern North America brings together 20 papers from recent research at sites in eastern North America, where humidity and the actions of weather, including acid rain, can be very damaging over time. Contributors to this volume range from professional archaeologists and art historians to avocational archaeologists, including a surgeon, a lawyer, two photographers, and an aerospace engineer. They present information, drawings, and photographs of sites ranging from the Seven Sacred Stones in Iowa to the Bald Friar Petroglyphs of Maryland and from the Lincoln Rise Site in Tennessee to the Nisula Site in Quebec. Discussions of the significance of artist gender, the relationship of rock-art to mortuary caves, and the suggestive link to the peopling of the continent are particularly notable contributions. Discussions include the history, ethnography, recording methods, dating, and analysis of the subject sites and integrate these with the known archaeological data.
Author: Alan Cornette Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781514230756 Category : Cave paintings Languages : en Pages : 74
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The High Rock Petroglyph (rock art) makes a good case for the theory that the Maya/Aztec cultures of Central America DID make pre-European contact with North American peoples. The Red River Gorge area in Kentucky was one of the last places of refuge for some North American indigenous people, and there is a reality that individuals mentally protect and preserve their spiritual needs, accompanied by physical paraphernalia, ritual, and ceremony. The High Rock Petroglyph with its carved image of a "religious leader," and the accompanying evidence of a skull carving and Weeping Eye symbol discovered in a near-by rock shelter, are perhaps the last remnants of a disappearing culture, artifacts of their spiritual needs, and the last of the indigenous ones to occupy the gorge area. Migrating people from Central America between 900AD and 1500AD contributed to the blossoming Mississippian cultures that spread along the southern North American shores, and into the river systems of mid-America. The Southern Death Cult, presumably originating with the Moundville, Alabama culture, exhibits artifacts and paraphernalia suggesting the distribution and influence of Central American people on the developing, North American cultures after the collapse of the Maya Classic period. Alan Cornette's artistic vision illuminates a subject that has all too long been neglected.
Author: Roland L. McIntosh Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813142741 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 302
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This informative and fully illustrated volume explores the untold story of agate gemstones hidden in Kentucky’s scenic Knobs Region. With their fine grain and rich assortment of colors, agate stones are coveted by collectors and becoming rarer across the globe. Some of the most beautiful specimens in the world have been found in the rugged terrain of eastern Kentucky. In Kentucky Agate, authors Roland L. McIntosh and Warren H. Anderson reveal the beauty and diversity of this sought-after stone with hundreds of color photographs. Kentucky Agate also reveals locations where agate may be found, offering maps of the region surrounding the city of Irvine, Kentucky, including parts of Estill, Powell, Jackson, Menifee, Madison, and Lee counties. With detailed photographs revealing aspects of the rock not visible to the naked eye, this book also provides fascinating information on the history, geology, chemistry, and formation of the mineral.
Author: Fred E. CoyJr.
Author: Fred E. CoyJr.
Author: Fred E. Coy, Jr., Thomas C. Fuller, Larry G. Meadows, James F. Swauger
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Author: Carol Diaz-Granados
Author: James H. Burchell
Author: Charles H. Faulkner
Author: Anita Spears
Author: Alan Cornette
Author: Alan K. Cornette
Author: Roland L. McIntosh