Author: John Howland RowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Max Uhle
Max Uhle, 1856-1944
Author: John Howland RowePublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Letters of Max Uhle, 1899-1900
Author: Max UhleUniversity of California Publications: Max Uhle, 1856-1944, A Memoir of the father of Peruvian Archaeology
Author: Frederic Ward PutnamPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Max Uhle, 1856-1944. A Memoir of the Father of Peruvian Archaeology. (Bibliography of Max Uhle.-The Aims and Results of Archaeology. By M. Uhle.-Letters from Argentina and Bolivia, 1893-1895. By M. Uhle.) [With Illustrations, Including a Portrait.].
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Author: John Howland ROWEThe Great Archaeologists
Author: Brian M. FaganPublisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500772371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The story of how lost civilizations, buried cities, and ancient scripts were rediscovered for the modern age, as seen through the lives and exploits of the great archaeologists who made these phenomenal finds The Great Archaeologists takes the reader on a journey from the first attempt to establish just how ancient the "ancient past" really was, through the revelatory discovery of lost civilizations and unknown cultures, right up to today’s search for explanations about the past. We meet Thomsen and Worsaae, Danish researchers and rivals, and Sanz de Sautuola and Abbé Breuil, who astonished the world with their discoveries of cave art. Controversial figures such as Heinrich Schliemann and the Hungarian Aurel Stein, plunderer of ancient manuscripts from Central Asia, are given new assessments. Little-known pioneers such as Max Uhle in Peru and Li Chi in China are set beside the giants in the field—from Koldewey, Dörpfeld, and Woolley in the Near East, to Louis and Mary Leakey, who transformed knowledge of our African ancestry. Other indomitable women include Gertrude Bell, Kathleen Kenyon, and the script-decipherer Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Brian Fagan has assembled a team of some of the world’s greatest living archaeologists to write knowledgeably and entertainingly about their distinguished predecessors in this handsome volume, full of fascinating anecdotes, personal accounts, and unexpected insights.
A Prehistory of South America
Author: Jerry D. MoorePublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607323338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology. For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers to rulers and residents of colossal cities. In the process, native South American societies made advancements in agriculture and economic systems and created great works of art—in pottery, textiles, precious metals, and stone—that still awe the modern eye. Organized in broad chronological periods, A Prehistory of South America explores these diverse human achievements, emphasizing the many adaptations of peoples from a continent-wide perspective. Moore examines the archaeologies of societies across South America, from the arid deserts of the Pacific coast and the frigid Andean highlands to the humid lowlands of the Amazon Basin and the fjords of Patagonia and beyond. Illustrated in full color and suitable for an educated general reader interested in the Precolumbian peoples of South America, A Prehistory of South America is a long overdue addition to the literature on South American archaeology.
Max Uhle, 1856-1944
Author: John Howland RowePublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Max Uhle, 1856-1944
Author: Edward P LanningPublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography
Author: Donald A. ProulxPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587298295
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For almost eight hundred years (100 BC–AD 650) Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants, animals, birds, and fish of their homeland on Peru’s south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today. In this first book-length treatment of Nasca ceramic iconography to appear in English, drawing upon an archive of more than eight thousand Nasca vessels from over 150 public and private collections, Donald Proulx systematically describes the major artistic motifs of this stunning polychrome pottery, interprets the major themes displayed on this pottery, and then uses these descriptions and his stimulating interpretations to analyze Nasca society. After beginning with an overview of Nasca culture and an explanation of the style and chronology of Nasca pottery, Proulx moves to the heart of his book: a detailed classification and description of the entire range of supernatural and secular themes in Nasca iconography along with a fresh and distinctive interpretation of these themes. Linking the pots and their iconography to the archaeologically known Nasca society, he ends with a thorough and accessible examination of this ancient culture viewed through the lens of ceramic iconography. Although these static images can never be fully understood, by animating their themes and meanings Proulx reconstructs the lifeways of this complex society.