Ceramics of Ancient America
Ceramics of Ancient America

Author: Yumi Park Huntington

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2018-09-12

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0813052416

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This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald

Golden Kingdoms
Golden Kingdoms

Author: Joanne Pillsbury

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1606065483

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This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.

The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru
The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru

Author: Alexandra Morgan

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9781407315232

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This is thelast volume of a comprehensive catalogue of Peruvian Pottery Figurines, fromtheir first appearance around 3,500 BC to the Spanish Conquest in the 16thcentury. The figurines are described in detail and classified by region,chronologically and set within the different cultures to which they belong.Volume I, The Figurines of the North Coast (BAR S1941), was published in2009; Volume III, The Figurines of South Coast, the Highlands and the Selva(BAR S2441), in 2012.

Collecting for a New World
Collecting for a New World

Author: John W. Hessler

Publisher: Giles

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911282396

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A completely new and revealing story of Pre- and Post-Columbian art as told through over sixty extraordinary artefacts now in the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.

Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean
Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean

Author: Lawrence Waldron

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781683400547

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Introduction -- Pre-Columbian peoples of the Caribbean -- Ceramics of the eastern Caribbean -- Ceramics of the Greater Antilles -- Rock art -- Sculpture -- Personal adornment -- Epilogue: Living legacies

Archaeometry of Pre-Columbian Sites and Artifacts
Archaeometry of Pre-Columbian Sites and Artifacts

Author: David A. Scott

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1994-10-27

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 0892362499

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Based on the 28th International Archaeometry Symposium jointly sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Conservation Institute, this volume offers a rare opportunity to survey under a single cover a wide range of investigations concerning pre-Columbian materials. Twenty chapters detail research in five principal areas: anthropology and materials science; ceramics; stone and obsidian; metals; and archaeological sites and dating. Contributions include Heather Lechtman's investigation of “The Materials Science of Material Culture,” Ron L. Bishop on the compositional analysis of pre-Columbian pottery from the Maya region, Ellen Howe on the use of silver and lead from the Mantaro Valley in Peru, and J. Michael Elam and others on source identification and hydration dating of obsidian artifacts.