Book Description
Reconstructs how life was in the ancient cities of the Andes including how village settlements gave way to religious centers, how city-states became empires, and the importance of Machu Picchu.
Author : Adriana Von Hagen
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN :
Reconstructs how life was in the ancient cities of the Andes including how village settlements gave way to religious centers, how city-states became empires, and the importance of Machu Picchu.
Author : John Wayne Janusek
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415946339
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anthony Aveni
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596439130
A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America. You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other cities were here? They grew up, fourished, and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities like St. Louis and Mexico City would later appear. In the pages of this book, you'll find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers—and then crumbled into ruins.
Author : Susan E Bergh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0500516561
Featuring approximately 145 of the most sumptuous and culturally significant Wari objects from collections in the United States, Peru, and Europe, and published to accompany the first exhibition in North America of their startlingly beautiful art An eminent ancestor of the better-known Inca, the Wari ascended to power in the south-central highlands of Peru in about AD 600, underwent a brief period of incandescently explosive growth, and then, by AD 1000, collapsed. Elite arts and the ideologies that informed them were among the Wari’s most prominent exports. From their capital, one of the largest archaeological sites in South America, they sent their religion along with elaborate objects and textiles out to highland provincial centers hundreds of miles to the north and south, and down into populous Pacific coastal areas to the west. The arts were crucial to the Wari’s political, economic, and religious communications: like other ancient Andean peoples, they did not write. The objects featured here cover the full range of Wari arts: elaborate textiles, which probably were at the core of their value systems; sophisticated ceramics of various styles; exquisite personal ornaments made of gold, silver, shell, or bone and often inlaid with precious materials; carved wood containers; and other works in stone and fiber.
Author : Elena Phipps
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Spanish colonial
ISBN : 1588391310
"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.
Author : John Wayne Janusek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135940886
The Tiwanaku state was the political and cultural center of ancient Andean civilization for almost 700 years. Identity and Power is the result of ten years of research that has revealed significant new data. Janusek explores the origins, development, and collapse of this ancient state through the lenses of social identities--gender, ethnicity, occupation, for example--and power relations. He combines recent developments in social theory with the archaeological record to create a fascinating and theoretically informed exploration of the history of this important civilization.
Author : Melissa A. Vogel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Casma River Valley (Peru)
ISBN : 9780813062150
Through analysis of the excavation sites and material culture of the major urban center of the Inka Casma polity, El Purgatorio, Vogel explores a transformative time in the pre-Hispanic Inka Empire.
Author : Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1996-08-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521553636
An innovative 1996 discussion of architecture and its role in the culture of the ancient Andes.
Author : Guy D. Middleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 110715149X
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Author : Henry Tantaleán
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351599100
The Ancient Andean States combines modern social theory, recent archaeological literature, and the experience of the author to examine politics and power in the great Andean pre-Hispanic societies. The ancient Andean states were the great shapers of Peruvian prehistory. Social complexity, architectural monumentality, and specialized economic production, among others, were features of these sophisticated societies known by professionals and travelers from around the world. How and when these states emerged and succeeded is still debated. By examining Andean pre-Hispanic societies such as Caral, Sechín, Chavín, Moche, Wari, Chimú, and Inca, this book delves into their political and economic structures as well as explores their ideological worldviews. It reveals how these societies were organized and how different social groups interacted in the states. Archaeologists and anthropologists interested in Peruvian archaeology and the political and social structures of ancient societies will find this book to be a valuable addition to their shelves.