South America

ISBN: 9781407305707
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The intention of this work is to explain how bone was used as a raw material on the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Three main lines of research are followed by the author: 1) The determination of the mechanical properties of bones... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306919
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study explains the social development of archaeological settlements and artefacts related to the first sedentary societies (1400 BC- AD 350) of the Northern Titicaca Basin, Peru. Such societies passed through a very wide event horizon, but... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540456
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The great Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) published five of his nine novels as feuilletons in daily newspapers or fortnightly women's magazines. How were the structure and themes of those novels entangled with this ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305912
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A study of the Mayan site of Joyanca (north-west Guatemala). .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305936
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Ancient Maya ceramic economy during the Late to Terminal Classic Period (800-900 A.D.) is the focus of this book. The author employed ceramic thin section petrology, raw materials sourcing, and contextual archaeological analyses and samples fro... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305929
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A study of war and the impact of war in the Central Andes from 2000 BC to AD 500. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407304663
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This is an archaeological study of the Spanish colony of Floridablanca in Patagonia, founded in the late eighteenth century. It explores the tensions between the planned colonial settlement and unplanned use of space and social practices by its in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515093125
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beiträge zur Europäischen Überseegeschichte (BEÜ)
Volume: 96
With the emergence of an independent state in Brazil in the beginning of the 19th century, the term "civilization" came to represent a basic concept within social-political language. The term enjoyed a fast rise in usage and soon became an obli... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521016629
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Nearly a millennium before the Inca forged a pan-Andean empire in the South American Andes, Tiwanaku emerged as a major center of political, economic, and religious life on the southern shores of Lake Titicaca. Ancient Tiwanaku synthesizes a we... .... Learn More