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DOCUMENT Citation Only T. D. Price. M. Kavanagh.

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IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is an image of a copper plate from Dunklin County, Missouri, dates between 1200 and 1400. Interpreted to be Birdman, Morning Star, or Red Horn by James Brown (2004, The Cahokian Expression: Creating Court and Cult. In Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand, Art Institute of Chicago). Image from smmercury.com

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is an image of a copper plate depicting two dancers from Union County Illinois. Interpreted by James Brown as the birdman (In "The Cahokian Expression," Hero, Hawk and Open Hand, 2004, The Art Institute of Chicago). Image from flickr.com.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Brown.

This is an illustration of several copper plates depicting the birdman theme. From Brown 2007 "On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography."

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is a photo of a figurine made at Cahokia and found in Arkansas. Probably dates to AD 1100-1150. Interpreted by F. Kent Reilly to be the Corn Mother, a supposed cognate of the Evening Star goddess.

PROJECT Santa Fe Institute.

This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of bird-man like images on an engraved shell from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 165.1.

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Jay (1,2) Stottman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1829, an experiment to produce American whiteware began at the Lewis stoneware pottery in Louisville, Kentucky. Archaeological excavations at the pottery uncovered evidence of this effort and the subsequent attempt to enter into full scale production of domestic dinnerware and sell it to the burgeoning middle class. Excavation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane E. Buikstra. Lyle W. Konigsberg. Jill Bullington.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas D. Holland.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of fragments of shell with birdman imagery. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 304.1.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of several fragmented shell gorgets from Spiro with birdman imagery on them. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 138.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Ford. William Chadwick.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Newport village was founded circa 1787 to facilitate movement of people and goods from Pennsylvania’s early road system to its riverine highways. The town was largely abandoned by 1840, but contained several taverns, residences, and blacksmith shops, as well as infrastructure for loading boats on, and crossing over, the adjacent Conemaugh River. At its height, approximately 30 families...

DATASET Heather Walder.

This is a two-column spreadsheet listing the name of each *.jpg of all glass beads and pendants examined in the study. They are listed along with the sample ID of each artifact. The images themselves will be uploaded into a separate *.pdf. The complete Filemaker Pro 13 glass bead database, which includes artifact provenience information, images, and compositional analysis results obtained with LA-ICP-MS is available from the author upon request. This is a *.fmp12 file type, which is not...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of a shell gorget from Spiro depicting a birdman image. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 148.

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is a photo from the Gottschall Rockshelter, in southwest Wisconsin. Dates to AD 1050-1400. This image is interpreted as Red Horn by Robert Salzer and Robert Hall and the Morning Star deity by James Brown.

DOCUMENT Citation Only T. III Webb. E. J. Cushing. Herbert E. Wright, Jr..

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

The following is Hall’s interpretation of the role of Long-Nosed God earrings in “Cahokia Interaction.” From Hall 1997 An Archaeology of the Soul.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

The following is a summary of Hall’s interpretation of Long-Nosed God masks. From Hall 1997 An Archaeology of the Soul.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann M. Raab.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On October 29th, 1862 the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry became the first African American regiment to see combat in the Civil War, over 2 months before the Emancipation Proclamation. While this event initially gained national attention, it eventually faded from popular memory until recently. In 2012 the Battle of Island...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

The following reports on rock art from Picture Cave, Missouri depicting a figure with Long-Nosed God earrings. From Hall 1997 An Archaeology of the Soul.

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These are images of the Long-Nosed God, adapted from Hall's "Archeaology of the Soul" (1997). Dates to AD 1050-1200. Tim Pauketat believes these derived from Tlaloc imagery.

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is an image of a Long-Nosed god mask made from shell. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

The following reports the finding of a Long-Nosed God maskette from Dickson Mound site, Fulton County, Illinois. From Hall 1997 An Archaeology of the Soul.

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The following discusses several Long-Nosed God maskettes from the Emmons site, Fulton County, Illinois. From Hall 1997 An Archaeology of the Soul.