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South America

Moche Fineline Painting from San José de Moro
by Donna McClelland, Donald McClelland and Christopher B Donnan
Moche civilisation flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities on intricately painted ceramic vessels, several thousand of which are scattered in museums and private collections throughout the world today. Unfortunately, nearly all were looted by grave robbers so their origin and context are unknown. In recent years, however, ...
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Blood is thicker than water: Amerindian intra- and inter-insular relationships and social organization in the pre-Colonial Windward Islands
by Alistair Bright
This study represents a contribution to the pre-Colonial archaeology of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The research aimed to determine how the Ceramic Age (c. 400 BC - AD 1492) Amerindian inhabitants of the region related to one another and others at various geographic scales, with a view to better understanding social interaction and organisation within the Windward Islands as well as the integration of this region within the ...
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Iconografía de la Cultura Tolita: Lecturas del discurso ideológico en las representaciones figurativas del Desarrollo Regional
by Maria Fernanda Ugalde
German info text: Unter den vorspanischen Kulturen Ecuadors ist die Kultur von Tolita für ihre detailreich ausgearbeiteten Figuren bekannt, die häufig Mischwesen darstellen. Mittels der Analyse solcher Darstellungen versucht Maria Fernanda Ugalde sich der Vorstellungswelt der Schöpfer jener Kunstwerke zu nähern und vorsichtige Rückschlüsse auf die Gesellschaftsstruktur von Tolita zu ziehen. Spanish description: ...
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Textiles from the Andes
by Penny Dransart and Helen Wolfe
This is the first time the British Museum's major collection of Peruvian and other early Andean textiles is being published as a group. Included are rare and exquisite pieces, many of great iconographic and technical importance, ranging in date from the Paracas to the Inka and Colonial periods, 200 BC to the late 18th century AD. Examples of contemporary Andean textiles will complement the early pieces and illustrate the continuation of weaving ...
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Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Architecture and Pottery
by Joyce Marcus
During the Late Intermediate period (AD 1100-1470), the lower Cafiete Valley of Peru was controlled by the walled Kingdom of Huarco. While inland sites produced irrigated crops, the seaside community of Cerro Azul, 130 km south of Lima, produced fish for the rest of the kingdom. Cerro Azul's noble families lived in large, multipurpose compounds with tapia walls. Their pottery had its strongest ties with valleys to the south, such as Chincha and ...
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Machu Picchu: Exploring an Ancient Sacred Center
by Johan Reinhard
Machu Picchu is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, yet it remains a mystery. Even the most basic questions have long remained unanswered: What was its meaning and why was it built in such a difficult location? This full-color book examines Machu Picchu from the perspectives of sacred landscape and archaeoastronomy. Using information gathered from historical, archaeological, and ethnographical sources, the author demonstrates ...
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Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains: A Study of the World's Highest Archaeological Sites
by Johan Reinhard and Maria Constanza Ceruti
The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 6,096 m (20,000 feet) high. The most important offerings made during these pilgrimages involved human sacrifices (capacochas). Although Spanish chroniclers wrote about these offerings and the state sponsored processions of which they were a ...
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Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley
edited by Joyce Marcus and Patrick Ryan Williams
This 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 ...
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The South American Camelids
by Duccio Bonavia
One of the most significant differences between the New World's major areas of high culture was that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. Four members of the camelid family -wild guanacos and vicuñas, and domestic llamas and alpacas - were native to the Andes. South American populations relied on these animals for meat and wool, and as beasts of burden to transport goods all over the Andes.

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Calima and Malagana: Art and Archaeology in Southwestern Colombia
edited by Marianne Cardale Schrimpff
This book, summarizing more than 25 years of research by a multinational team of scholars, chronicles the cultural and artistic development in a key region of Colombia from 8000 BC to the early Colonial period. Goldwork and pottery (including the spectacular finds from the recently excavated Malagana site) are discussed in the context of changes in the agricultural landscape, social and political evolution, and indigenous belief systems. 304p, ...