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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2016)
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This landmark publication catalogues the Art Institute of Chicago's outstanding collection of Indian art of the Americas, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Showcasing a host of previously unpublished objects ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2016)
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This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest. The author surveys what it means to be polygynous ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2016)
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Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society's most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human ...
DUMBARTON OAKS PUB SERVICE (2016)
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Trepanation is the oldest surgical procedure known from antiquity, extending back more than five thousand years in Europe and to at least the fifth century BC in the New World. Anthropologists and medical historians have ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS (2016)
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In Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2016)
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In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their remains and body parts then carefully rearranged and ...
ROUTLEDGE (2016)
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An Archaeology of Ancash is a well-illustrated synthesis of the archaeology of North Central Peru, and specifically the stone structures of the Ancash region. All the major cultures of highland Ancash built impressive monuments, with ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2016)
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This volume summarizes many aspects of more than twenty years of field research at the ancient Maya city of Blue Creek in northwestern Belize. Blue Creek was a medium-sized Maya kingdom whose wealth was built ...
ARCHAEOPRESS (2016)
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This book presents a collection of papers from the Symposium on Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico, held at the Center for Archaeological Research of the Colegio de Michoacán on September 18-19, ...
ROUTLEDGE (2016)
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At Home with the Aztecs provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an opportunity to humanize the Aztecs, moving ...
OXFORD U. P. (2016)
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The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeological research on almost every island in the three archipelagoes with that ...
THAMES & HUDSON (2016)
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This guide will enhance the appreciation some of the world's greatest art and architecture for visitors to the great Maya sites of Mexico and Central America and museum-goers.
In the recent past, a working knowledge ...
ARCHAEOPRESS (2016)
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This research explores the development of the Maya writing system in Middle-Late Formative and Early Classic period (700 BC-AD 450) Mesoamerica. It seeks to correlate script development with interregional interaction and diachronic changes in material ...
OXBOW BOOKS (2015)
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All of the articles collected in this book combine sophisticated analysis of an exciting archeological problem with prose geared at a non-specialised audience This volume gathers the best of the entries submitted for a writing ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2015)
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Situated in the heart of the Vilcabamba cordillera in Peru, some 150 km northwest of Cuzco, Choqek'iraw or Choquequirao (" the golden cradle " in Quechua), is one of the most beautiful achievements of Inca ...
OXFORD U. P. (2015)
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Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico, with a primary focus on the later Formative period and the transition to the Classic ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2015)
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From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul, the anthropological archaeologist ...
ROUTLEDGE (2015)
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The full text of The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires devastated by the Spanish conquest through the 21st-century, including the election ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2015)
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From 1956 to 1970 excavations at Tikal, one of the most famous classical Maya sites, was carried out by the University of Pennsylvania Museum Tikal Project. Until now, much of the field research from these ...
