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Author : Edmund Burke Delabarre
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Dighton Rock written by Edmund Burke Delabarre and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Burke Delabarre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Recent History of Dighton Rock written by Edmund Burke Delabarre and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Burke Delabarre
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Middle Period of Dighton Rock History written by Edmund Burke Delabarre and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doug Hunter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Place of Stone written by Doug Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Krueger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452945438
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Myths of the Rune Stone written by David M. Krueger and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community’s and a state’s identity for decades. In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a field near Kensington, Minnesota. The writing told a North American origin story, predating Christopher Columbus’s exploration, in which Viking missionaries reached what is now Minnesota in 1362 only to be massacred by Indians. The tale’s credibility was quickly challenged and ultimately undermined by experts, but the myth took hold. Faith in the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone was a crucial part of the local Nordic identity. Accepted and proclaimed as truth, the story of the Rune Stone recast Native Americans as villains. The community used the account as the basis for civic celebrations for years, and advocates for the stone continue to promote its validity despite the overwhelming evidence that it was a hoax. Krueger puts this stubborn conviction in context and shows how confidence in the legitimacy of the stone has deep implications for a wide variety of Minnesotans who embraced it, including Scandinavian immigrants, Catholics, small-town boosters, and those who desired to commemorate the white settlers who died in the Dakota War of 1862. Krueger demonstrates how the resilient belief in the Rune Stone is a form of civil religion, with aspects that defy logic but illustrate how communities characterize themselves. He reveals something unique about America’s preoccupation with divine right and its troubled way of coming to terms with the history of the continent’s first residents. By considering who is included, who is left out, and how heroes and villains are created in the stories we tell about the past, Myths of the Rune Stone offers an enlightening perspective on not just Minnesota but the United States as well.
Author : Ethan W. Lasser
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030022592X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy Chamber written by Ethan W. Lasser and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication accompanies the exhibition The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard's Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from May 19 through December 31, 2017, and at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 2018."
Author : Douglas Hunter
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469634414
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Place of Stone written by Douglas Hunter and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people alike on both sides of the Atlantic. The glyphs have been erroneously assigned to an array of non-Indigenous cultures: Norsemen, Egyptians, Lost Tribes of Israel, vanished Portuguese explorers, and even a prince from Atlantis. In this fascinating story rich in personalities and memorable characters, Douglas Hunter uses Dighton Rock to reveal the long, complex history of colonization, American archaeology, and the conceptualization of Indigenous people. Hunter argues that misinterpretations of the rock's markings share common motivations and have erased Indigenous people not only from their own history but from the landscape. He shows how Dighton Rock for centuries drove ideas about the original peopling of the Americas, including Bering Strait migration scenarios and the identity of the "Mound Builders." He argues the debates over Dighton Rock have served to answer two questions: Who belongs in America, and to whom does America belong?
Author : Capers Jones
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581129114
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)
Download or read book The History and Future of Narragansett Bay written by Capers Jones and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers 10,000 years of the history of Narragansett Bay. Topics include the geology of the Bay, paleo-Indians, pre-Colombian exploration, Indian Tribes living near the Bay, and the economic history and future of the Bay region.
Author : Edward J. Lenik
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651970
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Picture Rocks written by Edward J. Lenik and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located along rivers, at the edges of lakes, on mountain boulders, in rock shelters, on rock ledges where the continent meets the ocean, and tucked into parks and public places, American Indian rock art offers tantilizing glimpses of the signs and symbols of a Native American culture. Picture Rocks documents all known permanent petroglyph and pictograph sites from the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the six New England states, New York, and New Jersey. Some sites are subject to disputes over their origins—Indian or Portuguese? Some are ancient, and others, such as the work of the Mi’kmaq, were executed in the past 200 years. Many of these sites are little known; others, like those at Bellows Falls, Vermont, are sources of great local pride and appear on city walking tours. Interspersing his own interpretations with comments from scholars and Native American storytellers, Edward J. Lenik provides a definitive look at an extraordinary art form. Two hundred illustrations include historic sketches by early Euro-American colonists, nineteenth-century photographs, and recent photographs and drawings of the current conditions of many sites.
Author : EDMUND BURKE. DELABARRE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033178683
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (786 download)
Download or read book DIGHTON ROCK written by EDMUND BURKE. DELABARRE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Belanger
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402754371
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Weird Massachusetts written by Jeff Belanger and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massachusetts and weird: not too much of a stretch, some would say. But the authors dug a little deeper and found all kinds of local legends, bizarre beasts, surprising cemeteries, and uncovered the best kept secrets from all over the Bay State. If it's unusual or unexplainable or fantastic, and in the Bay State, you'll find it all here.
Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722221747
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Wonderful Works of God written by Cotton Mather and published by . This book was released on 1690 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transactions written by Colonial Society of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Burke Delabarre
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789354013003
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Dighton Rock; a Study of the Written Rocks of New England written by Edmund Burke Delabarre and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : John Edward Huth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674072820
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Lost Art of Finding Our Way written by John Edward Huth and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fog bank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and “read” waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth’s compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.
Author : Edmund Burke Delabarre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Middle Period of Dighton Rock History written by Edmund Burke Delabarre and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Burke Delabarre
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ISBN 13 : 9781332258277
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Dighton Rock written by Edmund Burke Delabarre and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dighton Rock: A Study of the Written Rocks of New England Note.- Acknowledgment for the loan of plates is made in this list by means of the following abbreviations: to the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, (C.S.M.);to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, (N.E.A.); to the Rhode Island Historical Society, (R.I.H.S.). Dighton Rock at low tide. Photograph by E. B. Delabarre, September 12, 1927; Shoreward side of Dighton Rock, with Grassy Island beyond. Photograph by E. B. Delabarre, May 9, 1925; Sketch Map of Assonet Neck, Berkley, Massachusetts; The up- stream end of Dighton Rock. Photograph by E. B. Delabarre, 1919; A flashlight view of the Dighton Rock inscriptions. Photograph by E. B. Delabarre, June 25, 1923, 11:30 P.M.; Best known drawings of Dighton Rock made before the introduction of photography. From the Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1893, Plate LIV (C.S.M.); Earliest drawing and description of the Dighton Rock inscription, by Rev. John Danforth, October, 1680. From a photograph of the originals in the British Museum, Additional Manuscripts 4432, 187, 188 (C.S.M.); Earliest printed drawing and description of Dighton Rock. From the Wonderful Works of God Commemorated, by Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D., 1690 (N.E.A.); Drawing of the Dighton Rock inscription by Rev. Ezra Stiles, July 15, 1767.From the original in the Yale University Library (N.E.A.); The "Smith- Stiles" copy of a drawing made in 1789 by William Baylies, John Smith, Samuel West, Joseph Gooding, and others. From the original in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society (N.E.A.). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
