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Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stephen Williams
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.1
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Publication Date: 1991-06
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Reading Level: 407
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Price: $26.60
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Sale: $82.72
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Manufacturer: Silver Burdett Pr
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Thomas Dickey
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Publisher: Silver Burdett Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 972.01
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Publication Date: 1982-05
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Reading Level: 176
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Price: $72.50
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Sale: $7.00
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Marc Bermann
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 984.101
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Publication Date: 1994-05-02
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Reading Level: 328
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Description: Household archaeology, together with community and regional settlement information, forms the basis for a unique local perspective of Andean prehistory in this study of the evolution of the site of Lukurmata, a pre-Columbian community in highland Bolivia. First established nearly two thousand years ago, Lukurmata grew to be a major ceremonial center in the Tiwanaku state, a polity that dominated the south-central Andes from a.d. 400 to 1200. After the Tiwanaku state collapsed, Lukurmata rapidly declined, becoming once again a small village. In his analysis of a 1300-year-long sequence of house remains at Lukurmata, Marc Bermann traces patterns and changes in the organization of domestic life, household ritual, ties to other communities, and mortuary activities, as well as household adaptations to overarching political and economic trends. Prehistorians have long studied the processes of Andean state formation, expansion, and decline at the regional level, notes Bermann. But only now are we beginning to understand how these changes affected the lives of the residents at individual settlements. Presenting a "view from below" of Andean prehistory based on a remarkably extensive data set, Lukurmata is a rare case study of how prehispanic polities can be understood in new ways if prehistorians integrate the different lines of evidence available to them. Household archaeology, together with community and regional settlement information, forms the basis for a unique local perspective of Andean prehistory in this study of the evolution of the site of Lukurmata, a pre-Columbian community in highland Bolivia. First established nearly two thousand years ago, Lukurmata grew to be a major ceremonial center in the Tiwanaku state, a polity that dominated the south-central Andes from a.d. 400 to 1200. After the Tiwanaku state collapsed, Lukurmata rapidly declined, becoming once again a small village. In his analysis of a 1300-year-long sequence of house remains at Lukurmata, Marc Bermann traces patterns and changes in the organization of domestic life, household ritual, ties to other communities, and mortuary activities, as well as household adaptations to overarching political and economic trends. Prehistorians have long studied the processes of Andean state formation, expansion, and decline at the regional level, notes Bermann. But only now are we beginning to understand how these changes affected the lives of the residents at individual settlements. Presenting a "view from below" of Andean prehistory based on a remarkably extensive data set, Lukurmata is a rare case study of how prehispanic polities can be understood in new ways if prehistorians integrate the different lines of evidence available to them.
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Price: $80.00
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Sale: $107.07
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 972.81016
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Publication Date: 1991-02-22
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Reading Level: 414
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Description: This volume is the first to present the results of recent decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing and to consider the implications of a Classic Maya written history. Contributors examine how the Maya elite created the kinship, alliance, warfare and ceremonial networks on which the civilization was founded.
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $76.86
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Colin Mcewan
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 745
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 300
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Description: Pre-Columbian Gold is a compilation of 13 essays by leading international scholars (archaeologists, art historians, metallurgists, etc.) that presents the latest research into the technology and iconography of pre-Columbian goldworking; areas covered are Peru, Bolivia, and Chile; Ecuador and Colombia; Central America and the Caribbean.
Essays include discussions of gold offerings from excavations at Batan Grande, Peru; a description of recently discovered Malagana goldwork from Colombia; and an account of gold found in archaeological contexts from Panama. The results of analytical work on these finds have yielded new insights into Pre-Columbian social organization and beliefs, which are complemented by breakthroughs in iconographic interpretation of Nasca gold masks. The essays are comprehensively illustrated with 209 black-and-white photos and 37 color plates.
Pre-Columbian Gold is the first interdisciplinary volume of its kind to cover a wide range of the principal Pre-Columbian goldworking cultures in the Americas. Both authoritative and accessible, it will be an important reference work for scholars but equally of interest to the non-specialist.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $34.95
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Char Solomon
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 980.03092
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Publication Date: 2002-11
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Reading Level: 224
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Price: $99.50
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Sale: $100.00
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Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 972.801
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Publication Date: 1988-11
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Reading Level: 400
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $28.95
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Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Emil W. Haury
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979.01
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Publication Date: 1992-07-01
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Reading Level: 506
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Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frances Joan Mathien::Randall H. McGuire
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Publisher: Southern Illinois University
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979.01
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Publication Date: 1986-06-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: This is the first book in 40 years to consider systematically the nature and extent of Southwestern Mesoamerican interactions.
Is the Southwest simply the northernmost extent of Mesoamerica or is it an independent entity that developed on its own with only occasional borrowings from Mesoamerica? This question is the basis for a debate that extends to the very beginnings of archaeological investigation in the Southwest.
Mathien and McGuire have brought together 12 papers and two commentaries that challenge this long-standing and perhaps misleading central question. Reality, suggest their 13 contributors, lies not at these polar opposites but along a continuum of interactions and economic connections on a number of geographic levels. These papers raise a series of sophisticated issues that are both theoretical and empirical. Can models such as Wallerstein’s be used to study the prehistory of the Southwest and Mesoamerica and by implication other prehistoric economic systems? When is a region peripheral and when is it external? How may the boundaries of large economic systems be determined?
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $49.99
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Manufacturer: Peabody Museum Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ian Graham
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Publisher: Peabody Museum Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 930
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Publication Date: 1993-06
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Reading Level: 64
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Description: For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the Corpus will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 monuments. The series has been instrumental in the remarkable success of the ongoing process of deciphering Maya writing, making available hundreds of texts to epigraphers working around the world. Each volume in the series consists of three fascicles, which examine an individual site or group of neighboring sites and include maps of site location and plans indicating the placement monuments within each site. Each inscription is reproduced in its entirety in both photographs and line drawings. The text of each volume presents descriptive information about the sites and monuments and their associated artifacts.
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