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DUMBARTON OAKS PUB SERVICE (2014)
pvp.82,34 €
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With spears and arrows, atl-atls and slings, the people of the New World fought to defend themselves against European invasion and conquest. Over a century of scholarship on warfare has substantially enhanced our understanding of ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2014)
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This study of subsistence activities (fishing, hunting, gathering, and manufacture) in the Cuitzeo and Pátzcuaro lake basins (Michoacán, Western Mexico) underscores the value of ethnoarchaeology as a tool for reconstructing the ancient aquatic lifeway in ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2014)
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The present volume was born from the interest to analyse the different modalities of the political strategies used by the dominant groups in Maya societies at different moments of their history. It tries to show ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
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This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, applying interdisciplinary approaches (archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography) to reconstructing the complex and enigmatic civilization. Frances F. Berdan offers a balanced assessment of complementary and sometimes contradictory ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2014)
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The domestication of South American camelids (llamas and alpacas) transformed the use of the Andean landscape. In the central altiplano of Bolivia, during the Formative Period (1500 BC - AD 500) a cultural complex known ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2014)
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The city of Palenque achieved its greatest splendour in the Late Classic when it became one of the foremost centres in the Maya world. During the reign of K'inich Janaab' Pakal (A.D. 615-683) the Temple ...
ROUTLEDGE (2013)
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The Ancient Central Andes presents a general overview of the prehistoric peoples and cultures of the Central Andes, the region now encompassing most of Peru and significant parts of Ecuador, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern ...
DUMBARTON OAKS PUB SERVICE (2013)
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Understanding the ways in which human communities define themselves in relation to landscapes has been one of the crucial research questions in anthropology. Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives addresses this question in the ...
BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2013)
pvp.30,23 €
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The accompanying title to the British Museum exhibition, Beyond El Dorado: power and gold in ancient Colombia, 17 October 2013 - 23 March 2014.
For the people of Colombia, the value of gold lay in ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2013)
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The Barbier Mueller Collection of Pre Columbian art, recently auctioned at Sotheby's, is the most comprehensive collection of its kind. Comprising some 300 works from Mexico, Central and South America--wood and stone sculptures, ceramics, textiles ...
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO (2013)
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This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
pvp.85,89 €
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Located within the deep tropical rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico, the Maya site of Bonampak is home to the most complete and magnificent mural program of the ancient Americas. In three rooms, a pageant of rulership ...
SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS PUBLISHERS (2013)
pvp.72,41 €
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A series of recent excavations has revealed the monumental sacred structures of the Chavín culture, whose people populated the coastal regions of Peru on thousand years before the Inca and which is regarded today as ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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As Spaniards built colonies in the New World, men of the cloth saw within ancient ruins and inhabited native towns great potential for easing the colonization effort. In the Yucatan, which is the locus of ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2013)
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The Bajío (West-Central Mexico) has been considered by various authors to be a key region for understanding the processes of interaction and migration among Central, West, and Northern Mesoamerica. Since the late 1990s, our knowledge ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
pvp.73,66 €
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The Codex Borgia, a masterpiece that predates the Spanish conquest of central Mexico, records almanacs used in divination and astronomy. Within its beautifully painted screenfold pages is a section (pages 29-46) that shows a sequence ...
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO (2013)
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"This volume makes available priceless documents about the Maya of highland Guatemala. Their transcription and translation conserves vital legacies of Maya thought, conservation even more critical in light of the especially brutal repression and violence ...
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO (2013)
pvp.106,63 €
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Presenting the latest in archaeometallurgical research in a Mesoamerican context, Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica brings together up-to-date research from the most notable scholars in the field. These contributors analyze data from a variety of sites, examining ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2013)
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The pre-Hispanic Mixtec people of Mexico recorded political and religious history, including the biographies and genealogies of their rulers, in pictograms on hand-painted, screen-fold manuscripts known as codices. Functioning rather like movie production storyboards, the ...
DUMBARTON OAKS PUB SERVICE (2013)
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Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World examines the structure, scale, and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands, and the ...
