Libros de ARTE Y CULTURAS PRECOLOMBINAS

The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to ...

One of the most important Post-classic cities, Utatlan, in highland Guatemala, was excavated more than three decades ago. However, the data amassed by archaeologists have not been published until now. ...

This stunning new volume presents full-colour plates, details, groupings and comparative images of approximately 147 Pre-Columbian works (spanning 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1530) from the collection assembled by John G. ...

- Accompanies a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from April 1-July 1, 2012 and the Dallas Museum of Art from July 29-November 25, 2012 - ...

The Carnegie Maya IV is the fourth in a series of volumes that make available the primary data and interpretive studies originally produced by archaeologists and anthropologists in the Maya ...

Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In ...

The history and mystery of the elegant Aztec Theater in San Antonio is revealed in this guide to the well-known landmark. Adorned by a collage of awe-inspiring artwork from the ...

Michel Graulich est l'un des plus grands spécialistes des religions de l'ancien Mexique. Directeur d'études à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Religieuses, de 1990 à 2005, il ...

This book, the latest work from one of Thailand's leading art historians, Piriya Krairiksh represents the culmination of 30 years research by the author and is sure to be a ...

In the Andes, a long history of research on burial records and burial contexts exists for the purpose of reconstructing cultural affiliation, chronology, socioeconomic status, grave content, and human body ...

The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic history-of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly illustrated volume examines these histories by considering the collection and display ...

Writing and recording are key cultural activities that allow humans to communicate across time and space. Whereas Old World writing evolved into the alphabetic system that is now employed around ...

Shamanism-the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge-has been an important part of life for indigenous societies ...

This is the first time the British Museum's major collection of Peruvian and other early Andean textiles is being published as a group. Included are rare and exquisite pieces, many ...

Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As an artifact of seismic cultural and political shifts, the ...

The pre-Columbian art of Latin America is still being discovered in the mountain valleys, deserts, tropical jungles and storerooms of museums and private collectors. From ancient Valdivian figurines and vessels ...

The charms and amulets presented in this book offer a unique opportunity to explore the way people in Pre-Columbian Ecuador interpreted their lives. The choice of material-metals, shells, fired clay, ...

This collection, which brings together some of the finest masterpieces of pre-Columbian art, brings us to the American continent, and demonstrates the extraordinary richness of the cultures of ancient America. ...

Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are also building blocks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. Organized thematically, the symbols touch on ...

Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The ...