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Author : Christina A. Conlee
ISBN : 0813062020
Genre : History
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This book focuses on the site La Tiza, the longest continuously occupied site in the Wari Empire, and therefore provides invaluable insights into the rise and fall of the Wari state.
Author : Anthony F. Aveni
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131668530
Genre : Science
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Cultural astronomy, first called archaeoastronomy, has evolved at ferocious speed since its genesis in the 1960s, with seminal essays and powerful rebuttals published in far-flung, specialized journals. Until now, only the most closely involved scholars could follow the intellectual fireworks. In Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, Anthony Aveni, one of cultural astronomy's founders and top scholars, offers a selection of the essays that built the field, from foundational works to contemporary scholarship.
Author : Jeffrey Quilter
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173019099686
Genre : History
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The articles in this book conceptualize the ancient New World through new and varied approaches, from iconography to the history of anthropology. The many essays in this volume explore the vast vista of the Pre-Columbian world, including representations of history, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery and Pre-Columbian narrative, the ideology of rain making, and Maya beliefs about animal transformations.
Author : John Hyslop
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017947401
Genre : Photography
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The 85 b&w photos presented here dramatically record the remains of ancient civilizations as they appear from the air, in the context of their terrain and the forces of nature over time. Introductory text and captions (by John Hyslop) give historical and cultural information. An index and a bibliogr
Author : Milbry Polk
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025799763
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Profiles eighty women who traveled to far-reaching places as guides, pilgrims, artists, mountaineers, scientists, and aviators to explore the unknown and satisfy their thirst for adventure with courage and determination.
Author : Dilwyn Jenkins
ISBN : 1858281423
Genre : Peru
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The third revised edition of a ROUGH GUIDE to Peru, first published in 1986, which provides travel information and offers recommendations for where to eat and sleep for a range of budgets. Also covered are Peruvian history, ecology, politics and Indian rights.
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