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Medicine Wheels of the Great Plains
Lecture no. 7 from the course: Ancient Civilizations of North America
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Taught by Professor Edwin Barnhart | 28 min | Categories: History
Medicine wheels—wagon-wheel type arrangements of stones on the ground—vary in their number of spokes and size; are difficult to date; and although some are precisely aligned to the solstices, the majority have no known astronomical significance. Survey what we do know about their function and meaning, which almost certainly changed over time, just like the human populations who built them.
24 Lectures
1
The Unknown Story of Ancient North America
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of 34 min
2
The First Human Migrations to the Americas
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of 36 min
3
Clovis Man: America’s First Culture
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of 38 min
4
The Archaic Period: Diversity Begins
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of 36 min
5
Late Archaic Innovations
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of 32 min
6
Poverty Point: North America’s First City
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of 30 min
7
Medicine Wheels of the Great Plains
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of 28 min
8
Adena Culture and the Early Woodlands Period
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of 27 min
9
The Hopewell and Their Massive Earthworks
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of 33 min
10
The Origins of Mississippian Culture
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of 31 min
11
The Mississippian City of Cahokia
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of 31 min
12
The Wider Mississippian World
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of 33 min
13
De Soto versus the Mississippians
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of 32 min
14
The Ancient Southwest: Discovering Diversity
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of 28 min
15
The Basketmaker Culture
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of 25 min
16
The Mogollon Culture
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of 27 min
17
The Hohokam: Masters of the Desert
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of 28 min
18
The Ancestral Pueblo
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of 28 min
19
The Chaco Phenomenon
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of 30 min
20
Archaeoastronomy in the Ancient Southwest
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of 26 min
21
The Periphery of the Ancient Southwest
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of 27 min
22
Late Period Cultures of the Pacific Coast
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of 35 min
23
Late Period Cultures of the Great Plains
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of 31 min
24
The Iroquois and Algonquians before Contact
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of 37 min
