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The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
By Hunter, Douglas
- ISBN
- 9781469634401 9781469634418
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Reviewed on September 1, 2017 | social sciences
Dighton Rock, a 40-ton boulder inscribed with numerous petroglyphs, entered the historical record in October 1680, when minister John Danforth began transcribing some of its inscriptions. For centuries thereafter, it was erroneously presumed that Native Americans were incapable of producing the art; credit was ascribed to disparate groups around the Atlantic world. Hunter (Half Moon) begins by discussing how the Portuguese saw the rock as a means to make a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
