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Syracuse, city of legends a glory of Sicily / by Dummett, Jeremy

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Fossil legends of the first Americans / by Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Marsh monsters of big bone lick -- The northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo -- New Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror -- The southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers -- The prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals -- The high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- Common ground -- Fossil frauds and specious legends.…”
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Making pictures in stone American Indian rock art of the Northeast / by Lenik, Edward J., 1932-

Table of Contents: “…Algonquian people in the northeast -- Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England -- Culturally altered trees -- Nonportable rock art sites -- Landscapes in myths and legends -- Portable rock art -- Pendants and gorgets -- Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles -- Sculpted heads and effigy faces -- Decorated stone tools -- Nonutilitarian effigy stones -- Dreams, visions, and signs.…”
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Light on the path the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians /

Table of Contents: “…Hally -- Lithics, shellfish, and beavers / Mark Williams and Scott Jones -- The Cussita migration legend : history, ideology, and the politics of mythmaking / Steven C. …”
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