Our Hidden Landscapes

Our Hidden Landscapes

Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America

Thomas, Elaine; Lavin, Lucianne

University of Arizona Press

03/2025

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Foreword by Laurie Weinstein

Introduction
Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas

Part I. Indigenous Perspectives on the Meaning and Significance of Ceremonial Stone Landscapes

. When the Landscape Speaks for Itself, What Do We Learn?
Doug Harris

2. Markings of Ancestral Pathways: A Native Perspective
Elaine Thomas

3. Unseen Borders and Ways of Knowing: Northeastern Algonquian Sacred Lands
Nohham Rolf Cachat-Schilling

Part II. Academic Perspectives on Understanding, Protecting, and Preserving Indigenous Ceremonial Stone Landscapes

4. Obligations of Place: Engaging with Tribal Historic Preservation Offices in New England to Preserve and Protect Ceremonial Stone Landscapes
Paul A. Robinson

5. 'So You Believe in Aliens, Too?' An Anthropologist Looks at Stone Features in the North American Northeast and the Archaeologists Who Do and Do Not Study Them
Laurie W. Rush

Introduction to Stone Removal and Disposal Practices in Agriculture and Farming
James E. Gage

7. Ceremonial Landscapes in the Chesapeake
Julia A. King and Scott M. Strickland

8. Stones and Their Places: An Application of Landscape Theory to Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of West Virginia
Matthew Victor Weiss and Charity Moore Norton

9. Piled Stone Features of Jackson County, Georgia
Johannes H. N. Loubser

Part III. Case Studies of Ceremonial Stone Landscapes

. A Sacred Space on a Hilltop in Harwinton, Connecticut
Robert DeFosses

Interpreting Row-Linked Boulder Sites from Georgia to New England
Norman Muller

2. Historic Ceremonial Structures
Mary Gage

3. A Theoretical Model of the Moon and the Milky Way at Ancient Meeting Places
Frederick W. Martin

4. Mythologies of Light and Cast Shadow Within Northeastern Stone Chambers
Kathleen Patricia Thrane

Contributors
Index
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Indigenous ceremonies; Algonquians; Indigenous archaeology; landscapes theory; Harwinton; abenaki; Connecticut archaeology; ceremonial stone landscapes; cultural preservation