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1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A lost Portuguese explorer's American boulder -- First impressions and first arrivals: colonists encounter Dighton Rock -- Altogether ignorant: denying an indigenous provenance and constructing gothicism -- Multiple migrations: esotericism, Beringia, and Native Americans as Tartar hordes -- Stones of power: Edward Augustus Kendall's esoteric case for Dighton Rock's indigeneity -- Colonization's new epistemology: American archaeology and the road to the Trail of Tears -- Vinland imagined: the Norsemen and the gothicists claim Dighton Rock -- Shingwauk's reading: Dighton Rock and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's troubled ethnology -- Reversing Dighton Rock's polarity: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the American Ethnological Society, and the Grave Creek Stone -- Meaningless scribblings: Edmund Burke Delabarre, lazy Indians, and the Corte-Real theory -- American place-making: Dighton Rock as a Portuguese relic -- The stone's place: Dighton Rock Museum and narratives of power. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. In this fascinating story rich in personalities and memorable characters, Douglas Hunter uses Dighton Rock to reveal the long, complex history of colonisation, American archaeology, and the conceptualisation of Indigenous people. |
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
(OCoLC)fst00969761
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Petroglyphs -- Massachusetts -- Dighton Rock -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Petroglyphs. (OCoLC)fst01059252
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations.
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Dighton Rock (Mass.) -- Historiography.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Massachusetts -- Dighton Rock.
(OCoLC)fst01283620
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hunter, Doug, 1959- Place of stone. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] 9781469634401 (DLC) 2016051985 (OCoLC)963230993 |
| ISBN |
9781469634418 (electronic bk.) |
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1469634414 (electronic bk.) |
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9781469634425 (electronic bk.) |
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1469634422 (electronic bk.) |
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