The Origins of the Chavín Culture
Author | : Chiaki Kanō |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780884020929 |
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Author | : Chiaki Kanō |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780884020929 |
Author | : Richard L. Burger |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780500278161 |
This is the first detailed up-to-date account in English of Chavin and its precursors. Based on the author's intimate knowledge of unprecedented discoveries made over the past two decades, including his own excavations at Chavin and elsewhere, it places special emphasis on the unique character of early Andean civilization and the distinctive processes responsible for its development. A wealth of photographs, drawings and maps accompany the text, including for this expanded edition a new section of color plates.
Author | : William J. Conklin |
Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2008-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1938770447 |
This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavin phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavin is remarkable for its baroque, sophisticated art style in a variety of media, including finely carved stone monuments, beautifully formed pottery, and magnificent and complex metallurgy. Also, the textiles from Chavin are incredibly innovative, both iconographically and structurally. They, in fact, form the foundation for the later Andean textile evolution. Chapters in this book cover new interpretations of the history of the site of Chavin de Huantar, studies of related cultures, the role of shamanism, and many other topics of interest to specialists and the general reader, alike.
Author | : Nathan Everson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
For years, the focus of study in the Chavin culture has been on their influence on later cultures. This study is meant to look into the influences that cultures in the Initial Period may have had on the Chavin, in particular, to their famous jaguar motif. To do this, radiocarbon dates are taken into account as well as use of a seriation of Chavin art styles and unique features of the Chavin motif. After researching seven sites but only being able to use three due to various reasons, it appears that the Chavin jaguar motif was truly a unique, stylistic invention of the Chavin culture.
Author | : Christopher Pool |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2007-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521783127 |
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica offers the most thorough and up-to-date book-length treatment of Olmec society and culture available.
Author | : Joanne Pillsbury |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606065483 |
This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
Author | : Brian R. Hamnett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2006-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521852846 |
This updated edition offers an accessible and richly illustrated study of Mexico's political, social, economic and cultural history.
Author | : Richard L. Burger |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1587298333 |
The father of Peruvian archaeology, Julio Tello was the most distinguished Native American scholar ever to focus on archaeology. A Quechua speaker born in a small highland village in 1880, Tello did the impossible: he received a medical degree and convinced the Peruvian government to send him to Harvard and European universities to master archaeology and anthropology. He then returned home to shape modern Peruvian archaeology and the institutions through which it was carried out. Tello’s vision remains unique, and his work has taken on additional interest as contemporary scholars have turned their attention to the relationship among nationalism, ethnicity, and archaeology. Unfortunately, many of his most important works were published in small journals or newspapers in Peru and have not been available even to those with a reading knowledge of Spanish. This volume thus makes available for the first time a broad sampling of Tello’s writings as well as complementary essays that relate these writings to his life and contributions. Essays about Tello set the stage for the subsequent translations. Editor Richard Burger assesses his intellectual legacy, Richard Daggett outlines his remarkable life and career, and John Murra places him in both national and international contexts. Tello’s writings focus on such major discoveries as the Paracas mummies, the trepanation of skulls from Huarochirí, Andean iconography and cosmology, the relation between archaeology and nationhood, archaeological policy and preservation, and the role of science and museums in archaeology. Finally, the bibliography gives the most complete and accurate listing of Tello’s work ever compiled. With its abundance of coups, wars, political dramas, class struggle, racial discrimination, looters, skulls, mummies, landslides, earthquakes, accusations, and counteraccusations, The Life and Writings of Julio C. Tello will become an indispensable reference for Andeanists.
Author | : Eugene Berger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Electronic book |
ISBN | : |
Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.
Author | : Richard A. Diehl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : 9780500021194 |
Provides a complete overview of Olmec culture, its accomplishments and impact on later Mexcian civilizations.