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Gods of Thunder : How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023 [©2023]

1 online resource (353 pages)

Englisch

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978-0-19-764511-6

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LOC-SH: Climatic changes-Religious aspects ; North America-Antiquities

This book re-writes the history of a critical if poorly known epoch--the Medieval period in North America (800-1300 CE). It draws on the latest archaeological evidence from north and south of the Mexican border as well as later sources from sixteenth-century Spanish conquistadors to reveal powerful links among Indigenous civilizations-from Mesoamerica to the Southwest and the Mississippi Valley-and their shared responses to climate change.

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Cover -- Gods of Thunder -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Introduction: In Search of Medieval America -- 1. Temples of Wind and Rain -- 2. Lost in Ancient America -- 3. Dark Secrets of the Crystal Maiden -- 4. Mesoamerican Cults and Cities -- 5. Across the Chichimec Sea -- 6. Ballcourts at Snaketown -- 7. A Place Beyond the Horizon -- 8. The Other Corn Road -- 9. Paddling North -- 10. Smoking Daggers -- 11. First Medicine -- 12. Wind in the Shell -- Glossary -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.