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Author: Viv Drewa
Publisher: Lavish Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-05-02
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1649008902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin and Clare Montgomery worked together as an archaeological team until Martin mysteriously died. Fearing the rumors of a curse. Clare vowed to never return, that was until a rare owl began to haunt her dreams. Was this a sign from her beloved Martin or something more sinister?
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781426203367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
Author: Walter Alva
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Royal Tombs of Sipán was written to serve as a catalogue for the museum exhibition of the same name. Its primary aim is to provide an account of the discovery, excavation, and current interpretation of the three royal tombs that were scientifically revovered from Sipán between 1987 to 1990. We have tried to relate them to the royal tomb that, so tragically, was looted at Sipán before the archaeological work began, and to demonstrate the value of careful archaeological excavation as opposed to clandestime looting"--Preface.
Author: Sidney Kirkpatrick
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true story of a priceless archaeological discovery and the high-stakes crime that followed, from the author of the bestselling A Cast of Killers. When Dr. Walter Alva, director of the Bruning Museum in Peru, received an urgent call from the police, he had no idea that he would soon be in charge of excavatinghat his life would soon be in grave danger. Color photos; maps and illustrations.
Author: Joyce Marcus
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2009-12-31
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1938770366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together exciting new field data by more than two dozen Andean scholars who came together to honor their friend, colleague, and mentor. These new studies cover the enormous temporal span of Moseley's own work from the Preceramic era to the Tiwanaku and Moche states to the Inka empire. And, like Moseley's own studies -- from Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization to Chan Chan: The Desert City to Cerro Baul's brewery -- these new studies involve settlements from all over the Andes -- from the far northern highlands to the far southern coast. An invaluable addition to any Andeanist's library, the papers in this book demonstrate the enormous breadth and influence of Moseley's work and the vibrant range of exciting new work by his former students and collaborators in fieldwork.
Author: Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1606065483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Hope B. Werness
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780826419132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnimals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.
Author: Christopher B. Donnan
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0826363490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLa Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world, nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb's contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and embellished. With more than two hundred color images of the archaeological treasures unearthed at La Mina--remarkable works in ceramic and metal that are among the greatest masterpieces of art from the ancient world--students and scholars will welcome the mystery of how careful archaeological sleuthing can piece together valuable information to recover what seemed to be unrecoverable.
Author: John K. Papadopoulos
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2012-12-31
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 1938770471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another.
