Author: George Grant MacCurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bones
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Actas
Author: A Survey of Ancient Peruvian Art
Author: Philip Ainsworth MeansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
Author: Michael B SchifferPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483214818
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 4 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book discusses the increasing application of surface collection in cultural resource management. Organized into eight chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the fundamental aspects of archeoastronomy and explains what kinds of testable hypotheses that archeoastronomy generates. This text then examines the general implications for the study of cultural complexity. Other chapters consider the use of surface artifacts by archeologists to locate sites, establish regional culture histories, and to know where to excavate within sites. This book discusses as well the interpretative interfaces between archeology on the one hand, and ethnohistory and ethnology on the other, that is based on a theoretical stance advocating a fundamental holistic approach to anthropology. The final chapter deals with understanding the ecology of ancient organisms. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists and anthropologists.
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
A Study of Maya Art, Its Subject Matter and Historical Development
Author: Herbert Joseph SpindenPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486212357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Landmark classic interprets Maya symbolism, estimates styles, covers ceramics, architecture, murals, stone carvings as art forms. Over 750 illustrations.
Real, Recent, Or Replica
Author: Joanna OstapkowiczPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, artifact fraud, and illicit trade of archaeological materials"--
Central American and West Indian Archaeology
Author: Thomas Athol JoycePublisher: London, Warner
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations
Author: Barbara L. StarkPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483276368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: The Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America is a compendium of research papers and treatises on Middle American people who lived within coastal habitats. The collection aims to reveal distinctive coastal adaptations and the role of Middle American people in major social transformations. The book discusses topics on the history of occupations of certain coastal sites; correlation of site location to resource procurement patterns; settlement locations and subsistence evidence in the coastal and inland habitats of Costa Rica; and the maritime adaptation and the rise of Maya civilization. The final chapter of the book also discusses the future research directions in the study of Middle American coastal people. The text will be of value to archeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnologists, and researchers.
The Art and Architecture of Ancient America
Author: George KublerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300053258
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Offers a survey of the paintings and architecture of the Mexican, Mayan, and Andean peoples
Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica
Author: Ernst HalbmayerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000023095
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo–Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica. It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in recent decades. Centering on relations between Chibchan groups and their neighbors, the contributions consider prevailing socio-cosmological principles and their relationship to Amazonian animism and Mesoamerican and Andean analogism. Classical notions of area homogeneity are reconsidered and the book formulates an overarching proposal for how to make sense of the heterogeneity of the region’s indigenous groups. Drawing on original fieldwork and comparative analysis, the volume provides a valuable anthropological addition to archaeological and linguistic knowledge of the Isthmo・Colombian Area.