Cosmology in the New World

Summary

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.

Cite this Record

Cosmology in the New World. ( tDAR id: 4670) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8ZS2XXW

Keywords

Culture
Anasazi • Ancestral Puebloan • Archaic • Aztec • Hohokam • Hopewell • Maya • Mississippian • Mogollon • Woodland

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
Archaeoastronomy • Cosmology

Geographic Keywords
New World

Individual & Institutional Roles

Sponsor(s): Santa Fe Institute

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Documents

  1. Amerindian Cosmologies and their Possible Asian Sources (2007)
  2. Ancestors in Cosmologies (2010)
  3. Another interpretation of Long-Nosed God masks (1991)
  4. Birdman - more bird than man (1978)
  5. Birdman cup (1978)
  6. Birdman cup fragments (1978)
  7. Birdman gorget (1978)
  8. Birdman images on shell cups (1978)
  9. Birdman on shell (2007)
  10. Birdman on shell cup, lower body (1978)
  11. Birdman shell cup (1978)
  12. Birdman shell fragments (1978)
  13. Birdman with mostly human attributes (1978)
  14. Copper repousee plates showing birdman 2 (2007)
  15. Copper repousse plates showing birdman 1 (2007)
  16. Cosmic Order and Change in Pre-columbian Eastern North America (2006)
  17. Cosmological Practice and Social Complexity in North and Central Mexico (2007)
  18. Cosmology and Worldview in the Central Andes: An Interpretation (2007)
  19. Court-card birds in "copper" style (1978)
  20. Crow Morning Star (1997)
  21. Fragmented birdman images (1978)
  22. Fragmented gorgets with birdman imagery (1978)
  23. Gorget with Birdman (1978)
  24. Interpretation of Long-Nosed God earrings
  25. Interpretation of Long-Nosed God masks
  26. Long-Nosed God earrings from Picture Cave
  27. Long-Nosed God mask from Alabama
  28. Long-Nosed God mask from Dickson Mounds, Illinois
  29. Long-Nosed God mask from Emmons site Illinois
  30. Long-Nosed God mask from Florida
  31. Long-Nosed God mask from Iowa
  32. Long-Nosed God mask from Yokem site, Illinois
  33. Long-Nosed God maskette from Wisconsin
  34. Long-Nosed God maskettes from Louisiana
  35. Long-Nosed God maskettes on the Big Boy pipe
  36. Long-Nosed God masks from Aztalan
  37. Long-Nosed God masks from Gottschall Rockshelter
  38. Long-Nosed God masks from Illinois
  39. Long-Nosed God masks from St. Clair county, Illinois
  40. Long-Nosed God masks from St. Louis site
  41. Long-Nosed God masks near Jacksonville, Florida
  42. Lopsided birds or bird-men (1978)
  43. Meyer bird-man cup (1978)
  44. More birdman cup fragments (1978)
  45. The Multifarious Theme of Bird-man (1978)
  46. Possible Birdman on shell (1978)
  47. The Role of Venus in the Cosmologies of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Southeast (2010)
  48. Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions (2010)
  49. Shell fragments of craig style birdman (1978)
  50. The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007)

Images

  1. Aztec dagger (2010)
  2. Aztec dagger carving (2010)
  3. Aztec Tlaloc jar (2010)
  4. Big Boy pipe (2010)
  5. Birdman image on pottery (2010)
  6. Birdman tablet (2010)
  7. Copper plate depicting Red Horn (2010)
  8. Copper plate with birdman (2010)
  9. Corn Mother (2010)
  10. Gottschall Rockshelter (2010)
  11. Long-Nosed God heads (2010)
  12. Long-Nosed god mask (2010)
  13. Long-Nosed god maskettes (2010)
  14. Morning Star headdress (2010)
  15. Morning Star petroglyph (2010)
  16. Mound 72 beaded burial (2010)
  17. Peyote Morning Star (2010)
  18. Picture Cave, black/white image (2010)
  19. Picture Cave, color image (2010)
  20. Proto Quetzalcoatl (2010)
  21. Proto Tlaloc (2010)
  22. Ramey Knife (2010)
  23. Ramey Knives (2010)
  24. Rogan Plate (2010)
  25. Rogan plate 1 (2010)
  26. Spiro carving (2010)
  27. Spiro Star Men (2010)