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Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas (Paperback)

P&S History > Archaeology > Archaeological Method & Theory World History > The Americas > USA

Edited by Bretton T. Giles, Edited by Shawn P. Lambert, Edited by J. Grant Stauffer
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Pages: 288
Illustrations: B/w and colour
ISBN: 9781789258448
Published: 15th July 2022
Casemate UK Academic

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This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modelled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasises that American societies did this to materialize overarching models and templates for the shape and scope of the cosmos, the working definition of cosmoscape. Noting a tendency to gloss over the ways in which ancestral Americans envisioned the cosmos as intertwined and animated, the authors examine how cosmoscapes are manifested archaeologically, in the forms of objects and physically altered landscapes. This volume includes case studies of cosmoscapes that present themselves as forms of architecture, portable artifacts, and transformed aspects of the natural world. In doing so, it emphasises that the creation of cosmoscapes offered a means of reconciling peoples experiences of the world with their understandings of them.

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