Bringing together seven papers given at a major conference on MesoAmerican studies held at the British Museum in 1995, this book uncovers new findings in three major geographical regions of MesoAmerica.
From the Abbevillean handaxe and the god Baal of the Canaanites to the Wisconsin and Wurm glaciations of America and Europe, the Yang Shao culture of neolithic China and Zinjanthropus, the "nutcracker man" of Africa, this dictionary describes, in more than 1,600 entries with cross-references, the sites, cultures, periods, techniques, terms and ...
The art of ancient Colombia is both individual in its many varied aspects, and a part of the larger South American world of its time, factors leading to the diversity of type and complexity of image present in the works of art seen here. This volume offers new interpretive perspectives on the prehispanic art of Colombia and brings to light new ...
This work presents heroic endeavour or disaster of hemispheric proportions. What is certain is that Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations. This volume brings together 11 scholars - from both sides of the Atlantic and from the disciplines of history, ...
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