Meso America

ISBN: 9781598741506
Published by : Left Coast Press
Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598741490
Published by : Left Coast Press
Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598744965
Published by : Left Coast Press
This volume reprints 20 chapters from the editors' comprehensive "Histories of Maize" (2006) that are relevant to Mesoamerican specialists and students. "Histories of Maize" is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305929
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume examines the origins of institutionalised warfare in the Central Andes. Chumassy shows that the region did not experience institutionalised warfare for several millennia during the Formative Period (3000-200 BC), with peaceful theoc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931745765
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: Cotsen Monographs
Volume: 67
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 im... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931745741
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: Cotsen Monographs
Volume: 66
Over the last decades, considerable effort has been directed towards the study of early complex societies of northern Peru, and in recent years archaeologists have expressed a strong interest in the art and archaeology of the Moche, Lambayeque ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931745802
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: COTSEN: IDEAS, DEBATES AND PERSPECTIVES
Volume: 4
Blood and Beauty brings together a diverse, prestigious group of contributors to debate this charged topic in an open, critical and frank interchange. Authors specializing in the anthropology, archaeology, art history, and linguistics of Mesoa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931745796
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: Cotsen Monographs
Volume: 65
This volume volume sets archaeological excavations at a special-propose estuary site in coastal Chiapas, Mexico, into the larger anthropological context of the origins of agriculture and sedentary life in ancient Mesoamerica. The site of El Va... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780500287552
Published by : Thames and Hudson
Originally published in 1962, this has been widely acclaimed as `the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region's ancient civilizations', from its early inhabitants to c.1519. A companion volume to Michael Coe's The Maya , this... .... Learn More