Meso America

ISBN: 9780861591589
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 158
This paper is a considerably revised version of the 1992 British Museum Occasional Paper No. 73 by the same author. The book describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. It also reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780816524020
Published by : University of Arizona Press
For thirty years, the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School at Grasshopperùa 500-room Mogollon pueblo located on what is today the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizonaùprobed the past, taught scholars of international repute, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780816524013
Published by : University of Arizona Press
For thirty years, the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School at Grasshopperùa 500-room Mogollon pueblo located on what is today the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizonaùprobed the past, taught scholars of international repute, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780874808285
Published by : University of Utah Press
For decades archaeologists insisted that southwestern cultures such as the Anasazi Hohokam, and Mogollon had little or no relation to peoples south of the border . Now American archaeology is beginning to take seriously the notion that goods, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780806137230
Published by : University of Oklahoma Press
This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousands years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological sources, the book is one of the f... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781857593860
Published by : Scala Publishers
Divinely sanctioned kingship is found among the ancient civilizations throughout the world. It has been a largely unexplored process in ancient Mesoamerica. Sacred kings, who played key roles in the emergence of complex urban society, first ap... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714841571
Published by : Phaidon Press Ltd
For over three hundred years, from the era of Christopher Columbus to the struggles for independence around 1820, Latin America witnessed an artistic flowering of enormous creativity and originality. In a unique way, the art and architecture of... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781851240951
Published by : Bodleian Library
Painted shortly before the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521, the Codex Bodley has been long recognized as one of the most important Mixtec manuscripts and a premier example of native Mixtec pictorial historiography in all its complexity. The ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780292705869
Published by : University of Texas Press
Although the history of the investigation of caves in Mesoamerica goes back some 150 years, little work has been carried out to collate and synthesise the data. Despite the ground-breaking work of J Eric Thompson in the 1950s and 1960s, it was not... .... Learn More