South America
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Ecuador: The Secret Art of Precolumbian Ecuador [Hardback]
Daniel Klein (Editor)
$85.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9788874393374
Published by : National Book Network
This beautifully illustrated book features some of the most significant works of art produced by the people that inhabited the present territory of Ecuador before the arrival of the Spaniards. It provides an overall view of a very rich civiliz... .... Learn More -
Arqueologia de La Payunia (Mendoza, Argentina): El poblemiento humano en los márgenes de la agricultura [Paperback]
$70.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841719122
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: bar s
Volume: 1477
A valuable new contribution to the regional archaeology of La Payunia (Argentina), tackling issues of broader interest such as the elusive relationships between foragers and agriculturalists. The work contains new and interesting material which... .... Learn More -
Peru: Art from the Chavin to the Incas [Paperback]
Patrick Lemasson (Author)
Regular Price: $35.00
Special Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9782879009636
Published by : Skira editore
Richly illustrated, this book describes the grandeur and richness of the numerous civilizations predating the Incas, including the Paracas, Nazca, Recuay, Sicán-Lambayeque, Moche-Sipán, and Chimú cultures, as well as the great Inca civilization... .... Learn More -
Fortifications of the Incas [Paperback]
Jeffrey C. Kaufmann (Author);J.E. Kaufmann (Author)
Regular Price: $16.95
Special Price: $6.98
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ISBN: 9781841769394
Published by : Osprey
The greatest period of Inca expansion occurred during the reigns of Pachacuti (1438-71), Tupa Inca (1471-93), and Huayna Capac (1493-1527). From the mountain stronghold of Cuzco, they subjugated the surrounding kingdoms and territories, absorbi... .... Learn More -
Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca [Hardback]
Stuart Stirling (Author)
Regular Price: $24.95
Special Price: $9.98
ISBN: 9780750936828
Francisco Pizarro is possibly one of the best known but least understood figures of world history. In 1530, at the age of fifty-four, he set out on his successful and bloody conquest of Peru, thus changing the future of a continent and its peop... .... Learn More -
The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 [Hardback]
Joseph J. Rishel (Author)
Regular Price: $75.00
Special Price: $39.98
ISBN: 9780300120035
Published by : Yale University Press
By the end of the 16th century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these continents and a proliferation of dive... .... Learn More -
Estrategias y formas de uso del espacio en poblaciones cazadoras recolectoras de la Puna meridional argentina [Paperback]
Liliana M. Manzi (Author)
$67.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841719016
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This research analyses the use of space by hunter-gatherers during the Archaic Period in the Southern Puna of Argentina (Antofagasta de la Sierra, province of Catamarca, 2500 and 8500 years BP). In Spanish, with English abstract. .... Learn More -
Death in the Bolivian High Plateau: Burials and Tiwanaku Society [Paperback]
Antti Korpisaari (Author)
$95.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841719689
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
the Bolivian high plateau, situated between the two Andean cordilleras, at an altitude of c. 3800-4000 metres above sea level. The Tiwanaku State (Tiwanaku IV and V, c. AD 500- 50) - the heartland of which was situated in the southern Lake Titi... .... Learn More -
Templo I de Tikal: Arquitectura y restauracion [Paperback]
Gaspar Munoz Cosme (Author)
$102.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841717630
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Oxbow says: In 1993 Gaspar Munoz Cosme was put in charge of restoration projects at Temples I and V at Tikal. This volume presents the results of the project at Temple I Great Jaguar and also reflects the author's interest in Maya architecture in... .... Learn More -
Wahlen, Parlamente und Elitenkonflikte: Die Entstehung der ersten politischen Parteien in Paraguay, 1869-1904: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte politischer Organisation in Lateinamerika [Paperback]
Jens Meyer-Aurich (Author)
$90.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783515088381
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Studien zur Modernen Geschichte (StMG)
Volume: 59
Die Urspruenge lateinamerikanischer Parteien reichen weit ins 19. Jahrhundert zurueck. Dennoch hat die Geschichtswissenschaft die Entwicklung von Wahlen, Parlamenten und Parteien in dieser Region lange Zeit nicht untersucht. Gruende dafuer waren d... .... Learn More