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Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are …
Inka Empire
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Inbunden, 2015
869 kr
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Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs-all were created within the largest political system …
Living with the Dead in the Andes
Av Izumi Shimada, James L. Fitzsimmons
Häftad, 2025
453 kr
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The Andean idea of death differs markedly from the Western view. In the Central Andes, particularly the highlands, death is not conceptually separated from life, nor is it viewed as a permanent state. People, animals, and plants simply transition from a soft, juicy, dynamic life to drier, more …
El Imperio inka
E-bok, 2020
283 kr
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Investigación multidisciplinaria que ofrece una discusión y síntesis detalladas y actualizadas sobre diferentes temas relacionados con el Imperio inca. Este volumen recoge veintitrés capítulos escritos desde la arqueología, historia del arte, genética humana y lingüística en los que se discuten …
Living with the Dead
Mortuary Ritual in Mesoamerica
Av James L. Fitzsimmons, Izumi Shimada
Häftad, 2020
424 kr
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Scholars have recently achieved new insights into the many ways in which the dead and the living interacted from the Late Preclassic to the Conquest in Mesoamerica. The eight essays in this useful volume were written by well-known scholars who offer cross-disciplinary and synergistic insights into …
Craft Production in Complex Societies
Multicraft and Producer Perspectives
Häftad, 2007
395 kr
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The study of craft production is a complex and challenging one that illuminates key aspects of the material, organizational, and ideological interests, values, and capacities of a given culture.Many crafts are treated as separate, but are actually practiced concurrently and in close proximity to …
Andean Ceramics – Technology, Organization, and Approaches
Technology, Organization, and Approaches
Inbunden, 1999
949 kr
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Andean Ceramics brings together many important discoveries of the past decade, especially of production loci together with innovative methodologies for their analysis and interpretation. Each chapter is an up-to-date synthesis of one or more of these topics: production technologies, scale and …
