Etowah (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Jones, Jr..

Charles C. Jones' classic work of Southeastern archaeology and ethnohistory was the result of observations on his extensive collection (nearly 20,000 specimens in the 1890s), his field observations, and his correspondence with other researchers and scholars of the time. In the book, he documents a number of archaeological sites (such as Stallings Island and Etowah) and describes objects in the collection in comparison to similar items found throughout the Southeast and Midwest. Moreover, he...

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."

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Brown.

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

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.

IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is an image of the Rogan Plate, from Etowah, GA. Dates to about AD 1300. Interpreted as the Birdman by King 2004 (Power and the Sacred: Mound C and the Etowah Chiefdom, in Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand, Art Institute of Chicago). Image from flickr.com.

IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is a copper plate from Etowah, Georgia dating to AD 1300. Interpreted as Morning Star or Birdman by James Brown (2004 - Hero Hawk and Open Hand). This is one of two similar copper plates recovered from Mound C.