South America
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Forests and Fires: A Paleoethnobotanical Assessment of Craft Production Sustainability on the Peruvian North Coast (950-1050 C.E) [Paperback]
David John Goldstein (Author)
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Lake Titicaca: Legend, Myth, and Science [Paperback]
Charles Stanish (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781931745826
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: WORLD HERITAGE MONUMENT SERIES
Volume: 2
Lake Titicaca and the vast region surrounding this deep body of water contain mysteries that we are just beginning to unravel. The area surrounding the world's highest navigable lake was home to some of the greatest civilisations in the ancient... .... Learn More -
Archaeological Investigations at Yaxuna, 1986-1996 [Paperback]
Travis W Stanton (Author)
£49.00ISBN: 9781407305455
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume represents the final report of the Selz Foundation Yaxuná Archaeological Project at the Precolumbian Maya center of Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico from 1986 to 1996. This volume contains summaries of all survey data, excavations, artifact ... .... Learn More -
Mysterious Cup Marks: Proceedings of the First International Cupule Conference [Paperback]
Roy Querejazu Lewis (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9781407306346
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This collection of papers is entirely devoted to cupules, a feature prominently in Peruvian and Bolivian rock art, as well as in Lower Palaeolithic India and elsewhere. The contributors examine issues of dating, interpretation and methodology. ... .... Learn More -
Hearts and Bones: Bone Raw Material Exploitation in Tierra del Fuego [Paperback]
Vivian Scheinsohn (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781407305707
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study investigates the uses of bone as a raw material on the Tierra del Fuego. Scheinshon first determines the mechanical properties of bones to be found on the island, and then traces the rates of use of bones from various taxa, and the e... .... Learn More -
Ideologica y Realidad en las Primeras Sociedades Sedentarias (1400 ANE - 350 DNE) de la Cuenca Norte del Titicaca [Paperback]
Henry Tantalean (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 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 -
The Chanka: Archaeological Research in Andahuaylas (Apurimac), Peru [Paperback]
B. S. Bauer (Author); Lucas C. Kellet (Author); Miriam Araoz Silva (Author); Brian S Bauer (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9781931745604
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: Cotsen Monographs
Volume: 68
In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program of expansion. Conquering a host of smal... .... Learn More -
Machado de Assis's Philosopher or Dog?: From Serial to Book Form [Hardback]
Ana Claudia Suriani Da Silva (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 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 -
Iconografía de la Cultura Tolita: Lecturas del discurso ideológico en las representaciones figurativas del Desarrollo Regional [Hardback]
Maria Fernanda Ugalde (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9783895006968
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Forschungen zur Archäologie Aussereuropäischer Kulturen
Volume: 7
German info text: Unter den vorspanischen Kulturen Ecuadors ist die Kultur von Tolita fuer ihre detailreich ausgearbeiteten Figuren bekannt, die häufig Mischwesen darstellen. Mittels der Analyse solcher Darstellungen versucht Maria Fernanda... .... Learn More