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The Burials of Cerro Azul, Peru
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

The Burials of Cerro Azul, Peru

Burial material from excavations at Cerro Azul in Peru's Cañete Valley, a pre-Inca fishing community.

Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro

Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities on intricately painted ceramic vessels, several thousand of which are scattered in museums and private collections throughout the world today. Unfortunately, nearly all were looted by grave robbers so their origin and context are unknown. In recent years, however, through a combination of archaeological excavation and stylistic analysis, it has been possible to identify more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro. To date, this is the largest sample of Moche art from a single place and time...

Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru

  • Categories: Art

"This is the largest collection of Moche portraits that has ever been published. As one of the most remarkable groups of portraits produced by any ancient people, it will be of interest to all connoisseurs and scholars of the world's great art traditions, as well as to students of the Moche and prehistoric Andean peoples."--BOOK JACKET.

To Feed and Be Fed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

To Feed and Be Fed

This book reexamines the structure of Inca society on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. The author argues that native Andean cosmology organized the indigenous political economy as well as spatial and socio-kinship systems.

Peruvian Featherworks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Peruvian Featherworks

  • Categories: Art

This title provides an in-depth and authoritative review of feeatherworking traditions in ancient Peru. The book includes a discussion of important recent discoveries, considerations of iconography, and basic technical characteristics of feather works.

The Oxford Handbook of the Incas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 881

The Oxford Handbook of the Incas

"The Oxford Handbook of the Incas aims to be the first comprehensive book on the Inca, the largest empire in the pre-Columbian world. Using archaeology, ethnohistory and art history, the central goal of this handbook is to bring together novel recent research conducted by experts from different fields that study the Inca empire, from its origins and expansion to its demise and continuing influence in contemporary times"--Provided by publisher.

Coastal Ecosystems and Economic Strategies at Cerro Azul, Peru
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Coastal Ecosystems and Economic Strategies at Cerro Azul, Peru

Cerro Azul, a pre-Inca fishing community in the Kingdom of Huarco, Peru, stood at the interface between a rich marine ecosystem and an irrigated coastal plain. Under the direction of its noble families, Cerro Azul dried millions of fish for shipment to inland communities, from which it received agricultural products and dried llama meat.

People of the Volcano
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

People of the Volcano

While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley—and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and deep canyon—to the city of Arequipa and its airport, eight hours away. Noble David Cook and his co-researcher Alexandra Parma Cook have been studying the Colca Valley since 1974, and this detailed ethnohistory reflects their decades-long engagement with the valley, its history, and its people. Drawing on unusually rich surviving documentary evidence, they explore the cultural transformations experienced by the first three generations of Indians and ...

Information Services Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 650

Information Services Latin America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Unusual Telescopes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Unusual Telescopes

Peter Manly surveys more than 150 unusual telescopes designed by amateur and professional astronomers to suit some special need.