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Author: Adriana Von Hagen
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconstructs how life was in the ancient cities of the Andes including how village settlements gave way to religious centers, how city-states became empires, and the importance of Machu Picchu.
Author: John Wayne Janusek
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415946339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Anthony Aveni
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1596439130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America. You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other cities were here? They grew up, fourished, and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities like St. Louis and Mexico City would later appear. In the pages of this book, you'll find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers—and then crumbled into ruins.
Author: John Wayne Janusek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1135940886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tiwanaku state was the political and cultural center of ancient Andean civilization for almost 700 years. Identity and Power is the result of ten years of research that has revealed significant new data. Janusek explores the origins, development, and collapse of this ancient state through the lenses of social identities--gender, ethnicity, occupation, for example--and power relations. He combines recent developments in social theory with the archaeological record to create a fascinating and theoretically informed exploration of the history of this important civilization.
Author: Melissa A. Vogel
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813062150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough analysis of the excavation sites and material culture of the major urban center of the Inka Casma polity, El Purgatorio, Vogel explores a transformative time in the pre-Hispanic Inka Empire.
Author: Elena Phipps
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1588391310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.
Author: Jerry D. Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-08-22
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521553636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative 1996 discussion of architecture and its role in the culture of the ancient Andes.
Author: Susan E Bergh
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2012-11-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0500516561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing approximately 145 of the most sumptuous and culturally significant Wari objects from collections in the United States, Peru, and Europe, and published to accompany the first exhibition in North America of their startlingly beautiful art An eminent ancestor of the better-known Inca, the Wari ascended to power in the south-central highlands of Peru in about AD 600, underwent a brief period of incandescently explosive growth, and then, by AD 1000, collapsed. Elite arts and the ideologies that informed them were among the Wari’s most prominent exports. From their capital, one of the largest archaeological sites in South America, they sent their religion along with elaborate objects and textiles out to highland provincial centers hundreds of miles to the north and south, and down into populous Pacific coastal areas to the west. The arts were crucial to the Wari’s political, economic, and religious communications: like other ancient Andean peoples, they did not write. The objects featured here cover the full range of Wari arts: elaborate textiles, which probably were at the core of their value systems; sophisticated ceramics of various styles; exquisite personal ornaments made of gold, silver, shell, or bone and often inlaid with precious materials; carved wood containers; and other works in stone and fiber.
Author: Guy D. Middleton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-26
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 110715149X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Author: David Hatcher Childress
Publisher: Lost Cities
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRogue adventurer and maverick archaeologist, David Hatcher Childress, takes the reader on unforgettable journeys deep into deadly jungles, windswept mountains and scorching deserts in search of lost civilizations and ancient mysteries.
