About this title: Ever since its scientific discovery, the great Nasca site of Cahuachi on the south coast of the Central Andes has captured the attention of archaeologists, art historians, and the general public. Until Helaine Silverman's fieldwork, however, ancient Nasca culture was seen as an archaeological construct devoid of societal content. Silverman's long-term, multistage research as published in this volume reconstructs Nasca society and contextualizes the traces of this brilliant civilization (ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 600). Silverman shows that Cahuachi was much larger and more complex than portrayed in ...
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Publisher: University of IA Press, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780877454076ISBN:0877454078
Description: Fine. Fine Dust Jacket. Large 4to. (16)371pp. Extensive biblio. Indexed. Many photos, drawings & maps. Small ink name in front otherwise unread condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Iowa Press, Iowa City
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780877454076ISBN:0877454078
Description: Very Good-in Very Good-dustjacket; 8.5 x 11 Hardback in dustjacket in Very Good condition. Deaccessioned from a museum library with usual marks. Illustrated by Black and White Illus and Figures; Scholarly text of Peruvian archaeological excavation. University of Iowa Press.; 3.5; 371 pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Iowa Press, Iowa City
Date Published: 1993
Description: (some pencil mrks. ) xiv, 371p. b/w plates, chts., illus., tbls., plans, maps, cat., meas. draws, graphs., diags., bibl., ind., color pict. d.j. 29cm. A well researched overview of the social and political organization of the ancient Nasca society as seen from its facinating ritual center of Cahuachi where the author explored temples, tombs and trophy heads to understand the bygone people who produced among the most vibrant Precolumbian arts of the Andean region. "Published with the assistance ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993
ISBN-13:9780877454076ISBN:0877454078
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Fine hardcover with dust jacket. 8 3/4x11 1/4". ISBN: 0-87745-407-8. 371 pages, profuse black and white illustrations. read more
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