Author: Ann KendallPublisher: BAR International Series
ISBN: 9781407391182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Aspects of Inca Architecture, Part Ii
Author: Ann KendallPublisher: BAR International Series
ISBN: 9781407391182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Aspects of Inca Architecture
Author: Ann KendallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Aspects of Inca Architecture
Author: Ann KendallAspects of Inca Architecture
Author: Aspects of Inca Architecture
Author: Ann KendallThe Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
Author: Sarah TarlowPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191650382
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
Inca Architecture
Author: Graziano GaspariniPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Inca World
Author: Laura Laurencich MinelliPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132211
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archeological research and Spanish colonial documentation, provides important insights into many questions and contradictions regarding the Inca Empire. 337 illustrations, 106 in color. 12 maps.
At Home with the Sapa Inca
Author: Stella NairPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302506
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and a summary of Inca cultural practices to the key events of Topa Inca's reign and the many individual elements of Chinchero's extraordinary built environment. What emerges are the subtle, often sophisticated ways in which the Inca manipulated space and architecture in order to impose their authority, identity, and agenda. The remains of grand buildings, as well as a series of deft architectural gestures in the landscape, reveal the unique places that were created within the royal estate and how one space deeply informed the other. These dynamic settings created private places for an aging ruler to spend time with a preferred wife and son, while also providing impressive spaces for imperial theatrics that reiterated the power of Topa Inca, the choice of his preferred heir, and the ruler's close relationship with sacred forces. This careful study of architectural details also exposes several false paradigms that have profoundly misguided how we understand Inca architecture, including the belief that it ended with the arrival of Spaniards in the Andes. Instead, Nair reveals how, amidst the entanglement and violence of the European encounter, an indigenous town emerged that was rooted in Inca ways of understanding space, place, and architecture and that paid homage to a landscape that defined home for Topa Inca.
Inca Architecture and Construction at Ollantaytambo
Author: Jean-Pierre ProtzenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This architectural study attempts to explain how the Incas, who did not have iron tools or a knowledge of the wheel, were able to mine and transport extremely heavy stone and rock, following which these materials were converted into remarkably large structures.