Author: Louis AllairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antilles, Lesser
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Actas del Noveno Congreso Internacional para el Estudio de las Culturas Pre-Colombinas de las Antillas Menores
Author: Louis AllairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antilles, Lesser
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Antropológica
Author: Archaeology in Latin America
Author: Benjamin AlbertiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134597843
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by archaeologists native to the region, making their collected expertise available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
Compte-rendu Intégral Des Communications Et Debates
Author: Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area
Author: Frederick W. LangePublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021919
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America
Author: Mark Miller GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America provides reassessments of the paradigms that have guided - sometimes unconsciously and uncritically - interpretations of ancient Central American society, culture, and art. This volume challenges prevailing notions of Mesoamerica and other intellectual constructs of Central American prehistory, drawing on deconstruction, structuralism, diffusionism, and postprocessual archaeology. Nine chapters by distinguished art historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists from the United States, Costa Rica, and Panama illuminate diverse perspectives on common themes in Central American prehistory, such as the definition of center and periphery, the relation between ethnicity and polychrome ceramic traditions, the cultural meanings of color, and the social reality in mortuary art. A common focus among the authors is the relationship between the so-called high cultures, especially the Maya and their supposedly less-developed neighbors in southern Central America. This volume has more than 150 illustrations. The contributors include Mark Miller Graham, Terence Grieder, Rosemary Joyce, Oscar Fonseca Zamora, Peter S. Briggs, Mary W. Helms, Richard Cooke, Whitney Davis, and Frederick W. Lange.
Inter-regional Ties in Costa Rican Prehistory
Author: Esther SkirbollPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Symposium in honor of Carl Vilhelm Hartman, held in Carnegie Museum's Section of Anthropology.
Aanwinstenlijst Centrale Bibliotheek
Author: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen. Centrale BibliotheekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Cobble Circles and Standing Stones
Author: Jeffrey QuilterPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587294842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In this first-person tale of archaeological adventure in the tropical forest, Jeffrey Quilter tells the story of his excavation of Rivas, a great ceremonial center at the foot of the Talamanca Mountain range, which flourished between A.D. 900 and 1300, and its fabled gold-filled cemetery, the Panteón de La Reina. Beginning with the 1992 field season and ending with the last excavations in 1998, Quilter discusses Rivas’ builders and users, theories on chiefdom societies, and the daily interactions and surprises of modern archaeological fieldwork. Writing in the first person with a balance between informal language and academic theory, Quilter concludes that Rivas was a ceremonial center for mortuary rituals to bury chiefly elite on the Panteón. Through use of his narrative technique, he provides the reader with accounts of discoveries as they occurred in fieldwork and the development of interpretations to explain the ancient refuse and cobble architecture his team uncovered. As his story progresses amid the enchantment of the Costa Rican landscape, research plans are adjusted and sometimes completely overturned as new discoveries, often serendipitous ones, are made. Such changing circumstances lead to new insights into the rise and fall of the people who built the cobble circles and raised the standing stones at Rivas, a thousand years ago. The only book in English that focuses on a single archaeological site in Costa Rica, which continues to develop as a destination for archaeological tourism, Cobble Stones and Standing Circles will appeal to laypeople and professionals alike.