Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

by George E. Lankford

Middle Mississippi Valley petroglyphs (rock carvings) and pictographs (rock paintings), with their copious amount and variety of symbolic motifs, provide an unparalleled inventory of Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC)/Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere (MIIS)