The University of Arizona Press
Our Hidden Landscapes
Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America
Hardcover ($75.00), Ebook ($75.00)
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Challenging traditional and long-standing understandings, this volume provides an important new lens for interpreting stone structures that had previously been attributed to settler colonialism. Instead, the contributors to this volume argue that these locations are sacred Indigenous sites.
This volume introduces readers to eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes (CSLs)—sacred sites whose principal identifying characteristics are built stone structures that cluster within specific physical landscapes. Our Hidden Landscapes presents these often unrecognized sites as significant cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation.
In this book, Native American authors provide perspectives on the cultural meaning and significance of CSLs and their characteristics, while professional archaeologists and anthropologists provide a variety of approaches for better understanding, protecting, and preserving them. The chapters present overwhelming evidence in the form of oral tradition, historic documentation, ethnographies, and archaeological research that these important sites created and used by Indigenous peoples are deserving of protection.
This work enables archaeologists, historians, conservationists, foresters, and members of the general public to recognize these important ritual sites.
Contributors
Nohham Rolf Cachat-Schilling
Robert DeFosses
James Gage
Mary Gage
Doug Harris
Julia A. King
Lucianne Lavin
Johannes (Jannie) H. N. Loubser
Frederick W. Martin
Norman Muller
Charity Moore Norton
Paul A. Robinson
Laurie W. Rush
Scott M. Strickland
Elaine Thomas
Kathleen Patricia Thrane
Matthew Victor Weiss
This volume introduces readers to eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes (CSLs)—sacred sites whose principal identifying characteristics are built stone structures that cluster within specific physical landscapes. Our Hidden Landscapes presents these often unrecognized sites as significant cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation.
In this book, Native American authors provide perspectives on the cultural meaning and significance of CSLs and their characteristics, while professional archaeologists and anthropologists provide a variety of approaches for better understanding, protecting, and preserving them. The chapters present overwhelming evidence in the form of oral tradition, historic documentation, ethnographies, and archaeological research that these important sites created and used by Indigenous peoples are deserving of protection.
This work enables archaeologists, historians, conservationists, foresters, and members of the general public to recognize these important ritual sites.
Contributors
Nohham Rolf Cachat-Schilling
Robert DeFosses
James Gage
Mary Gage
Doug Harris
Julia A. King
Lucianne Lavin
Johannes (Jannie) H. N. Loubser
Frederick W. Martin
Norman Muller
Charity Moore Norton
Paul A. Robinson
Laurie W. Rush
Scott M. Strickland
Elaine Thomas
Kathleen Patricia Thrane
Matthew Victor Weiss
“The editors have presented a very successful case for the long-term use as well as the historic Native use of ceremonial stone landscapes (CSL). Thirty-three tribes, these authors, and these editors want these landscapes recognized and preserved.”—Cheryl Claassen, Journal of Anthropological Research
“Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America is a must-read text written by an eclectic group of knowledgeable authors that provide a diverse perspective on the problematic issues surrounding Native American sacred stone structure sites.”—Harry O. Holstein, Stones & Bones
“The chapters offer a perspective and opinions on the indigenous cultural landscape scene in eastern North America, one that is seldom (if ever) seen or discussed by conventional archeology. The book is written to widen the view and argue for more research and insights regarding eastern North American stone constructs and indigenous origins.”—Herman E. Bender, President of the Hanwakan Center for Prehistoric Astronomy, Cosmology and Cultural Landscape Studies
“Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America is a must-read text written by an eclectic group of knowledgeable authors that provide a diverse perspective on the problematic issues surrounding Native American sacred stone structure sites.”—Harry O. Holstein, Stones & Bones
“The chapters offer a perspective and opinions on the indigenous cultural landscape scene in eastern North America, one that is seldom (if ever) seen or discussed by conventional archeology. The book is written to widen the view and argue for more research and insights regarding eastern North American stone constructs and indigenous origins.”—Herman E. Bender, President of the Hanwakan Center for Prehistoric Astronomy, Cosmology and Cultural Landscape Studies
384 Pages
6 x 9 x 0
Published: October 2023Hardcover ISBN: 9780816550876
Published: October 2023Ebook ISBN: 9780816550883