Author: Donald Alexander MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Myths of Pre-Columbian America
Author: Donald Alexander MackenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
1493
Author: Charles C. MannPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307265722
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.
Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador
Author: Colin McEwanPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884024705
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador: Toward an Integrated Approach presents current research on the prehispanic indigenous peoples in the lands between Mesoamerica and the Andes. Specialists have contributed to this illustrated book on topics ranging from historical and theoretical perspectives to reports on recent excavations.
Polynesians in America
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759120064
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.
Pre-Columbian America
Author: Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and CulturePublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 161530150X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents a history of ancient American civilizations prior to the arrival of Columbus, discussing history, agriculture, religion, architecture, art, and politics.
Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America
Author: Hasso Von WinningPublisher:
ISBN: 9780810947511
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World
Author: Kenn HirthPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884023869
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title 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 central Andes.
Before Columbus
Author: Charles C. MannPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416949003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.
Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks
Author: Colin McEwanPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884024699
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The final installment in the series of catalogues of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection, Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks examines a comprehensive collection of jade and gold objects from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Full color photographs illustrate the breathtaking works of Indigenous artists and artisans.
Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence
Author: Richard J. ChaconPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816525270
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This groundbreaking multidisciplinary book presents significant essays on historical indigenous violence in Latin America from Tierra del Fuego to central Mexico. The collection explores those uniquely human motivations and environmental variables that have led to the native peoples of Latin America engaging in warfare and ritual violence since antiquity. Based on an American Anthropological Association symposium, this book collects twelve contributions from sixteen authors, all of whom are scholars at the forefront of their fields of study. All of the chapters advance our knowledge of the causes, extent, and consequences of indigenous violenceÑincluding ritualized violenceÑin Latin America. Each major historical/cultural group in Latin America is addressed by at least one contributor. Incorporating the results of dozens of years of research, this volume documents evidence of warfare, violent conflict, and human sacrifice from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, including incidents that occurred before European contact. Together the chapters present a convincing argument that warfare and ritual violence have been woven into the fabric of life in Latin America since remote antiquity. For the first time, expert subject-area work on indigenous violenceÑarchaeological, osteological, ethnographic, historical, and forensicÑhas been assembled in one volume. Much of this work has heretofore been dispersed across various countries and languages. With its collection into one English-language volume, all future writersÑregardless of their discipline or point of viewÑwill have a source to consult for further research. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Richard J. Chacon and RubŽn G. Mendoza 1.ÊÊStatus Rivalry and Warfare in the Development and Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Matt OÕMansky and Arthur A. Demarest 2.ÊÊAztec Militarism and Blood Sacrifice: The Archaeology and Ideology of Ritual Violence RubŽn G. Mendoza 3.ÊÊTerritorial Expansion and Primary State Formation in Oaxaca, Mexico Charles S. Spencer 4.ÊÊImages of Violence in Mesoamerican Mural Art Donald McVicker 5.ÊÊCircum-Caribbean Chiefly Warfare Elsa M. Redmond 6.ÊÊConflict and Conquest in Pre-Hispanic Andean South America: Archaeological Evidence from Northern Coastal Peru John W. Verano 7.ÊÊThe Inti Raymi Festival among the Cotacachi and Otavalo of Highland Ecuador: Blood for the Earth Richard J. Chacon, Yamilette Chacon, and Angel Guandinango 8.ÊÊUpper Amazonian Warfare Stephen Beckerman and James Yost 9.ÊÊComplexity and Causality in Tupinamb‡ Warfare William BalŽe 10.ÊÊHunter-GatherersÕ Aboriginal Warfare in Western Chaco Marcela Mendoza 11.ÊÊThe Struggle for Social Life in Fuego-Patagonia Alfredo Prieto and Rodrigo C‡rdenas 12.ÊÊEthical Considerations and Conclusions Regarding Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence in Latin America Richard J. Chacon and RubŽn G. Mendoza References About the Contributors Index