Tarascan copper metallurgy : a multiapproach perspective /
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This is a study which provides valuable insights into the nature of metal production and the development of technology and political economy in ancient Mesoamerica, offering a contribution to general anthropological theories of the emergence of social complexity.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784916268 (ebook) :
Paisajes de la campaña pampeana (siglos XIX y XX) : abordajes desde la Arqueología rural en Argentina /
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This volume presents a series of papers designed to offer a summary of ongoing research across Argentina that can come under the broad heading of Rural Archaeology.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690163 (ebook) :
Imágenes y paisajes : el arte rupestre del Noreste de Catamarca, Argentina /
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Northeast of Catamarca, Argentina, there is a set of shelters and caves located in the rainforest with rock art with virtually no background. This book presents a study and systematic analysis of the plastic-thematic-compositional repertoire of the rock art sites of 'Los Algarrobales' and their spatial and temporal distribution.
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1 online resource (ii, 280 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789693928 (ebook) :
Toniná, una ciudad maya de Chiapas : vida y muerte en las postrimerías del colapso Maya /
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Toniná was a Mayan city, located between two cultural areas near the Chiapas Highlands. It has been widely proposed that the Maya collapse implied the disappearance and depopulation of many cities; this research addresses the survival of Toniná towards the threshold of the Postclassic. For this purpose, 15,956 human bones found in Structure 15 of the fifth platform in the Acropolis of Toniná were analysed. The analysis of anthropological osteology allowed us to know the biological profile and to document the cultural taphonomy, through which the practice of human sacrifice and the posthumous treatment of the victims was evidenced. The application of stable isotope and strontium analyses also allowed us to determine the dietary profile of those sacrificed, their geographical origin and mobility throughout their lives.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
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1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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9781789699296 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Archaeological paleography : a proposal for tracing the role of interaction in Mayan script innovation via material remains /
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This volume explores the development of the Maya writing system in Middle-Late Formative and Early Classic period (700 BC-AD 450) Mesoamerica.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784912406 (PDF ebook) :
Mesoamerican religions and archaeology : essays in pre-Columbian civilizations /
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The main goal of this work is to produce a methodologically sound and ethically valid interdisciplinary introduction into the exciting world of ancient Mesoamerica.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784915032 (ebook) :
Arqueología urbana en el área central de la ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina : excavaciones en la sede Corporativa del Banco de la Provincia de Córdoba (2014-2016) /
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This work is part of a line of action proposed by the Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba (IDACOR), doubly dependent executing unit of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the National University of Cordoba (UNC). This action requires the intervention of professional archaeologists in order to evaluate the impact produced by subsurface excavation in cases related to the development of real estate projects.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916091 (ebook) :
Sig y análisis espacial en la arqueología de cazadores recolectores de Magallania (extremo sur de Sudamérica) /
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Magallania defines the region between the Santa Cruz river basin to the north and the Fuegian expression of the Andes to the south. It is one of the southernmost spaces in the world and the last to be occupied by humans, a process that occurred at least at the end of the Pleistocene (11,000 to 9,000 AP) and before the complete formation of the Strait of Magellan (ca. 8000 AP). Thereafter, the Strait functioned as a biogeographic barrier, creating conditions for divergent cultural evolution between the populations of the mainland and Tierra del Fuego. For this reason, the archeology of Magallania offers a unique possibility to inquire about the relationship between the environmental dynamics and the spatial organization of populations of hunter-gatherers settled on both sides of the Strait of Magellan.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916077 (ebook) :
Aportes del enfoque tecnólogico a la arqueología preColombina : pasado y presente de la alfarería en el Valle del Río Cuyes y su región (Andes sur-orientales del Ecuador) /
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Located in the Northwest of South America (Ecuador), the Cuyes River Valley acts as a transition corridor between the Andean and Amazon regions. This research attempts to determine the ethnic origin of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Cuyes valley through the application of a method of ceramic analysis completely new in the region: the technological approach.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
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9781784916114 (ebook) :
Ancient West Mexico in the Mesoamerican ecumene /
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This volume presents a long-overdue synthesis and update on West Mexican archaeology. Ancient West Mexico has often been portrayed as a 'marginal' or 'underdeveloped' area of Mesoamerica. This book shows that the opposite is true and that it played a critical role in the cultural and historical development of the Mesoamerican ecumene.
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1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations. :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789693546 (PDF ebook) :
Peintures et gravures rupestres des Amériques : Empreintes culturelles et territoriales : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France).
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How does the study of rock art make it possible to culturally characterise its authors? What does it tell us about the function of sites? How and under what circumstances does it make it possible to delimit a cultural territory? The six articles in this volume provide case studies from Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, French Guiana and Chile.
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Conference proceedings.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (ii, 98 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789696349 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
El Palacio : historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico /
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11 contributions consider legacy and archive data (1896-1995) and results derived from recent archaeological investigations (2012-2017) to present a review and analysis of the chrono-stratigraphy, material culture, urbanism, and economic and ritual practices at El Palacio, northern Michoacán, Mexico, between A.D. 850 and 1521.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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9781789697971 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Searching for the 17th century on Nevis : the survey and excavation of two early plantation sites /
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A monograph dedicated to the archaeological investigation of the landscape, buildings and artefacts of the Eastern Caribbean by the Nevis Heritage Project. It presents the results of documentary research and excavation on two sugar plantation sites on the island of Nevis.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789698879 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Enemy - stranger - neighbour : the image of the other in moche culture /
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'Enemy - Stranger - Neighbour' is dedicated to artistic renderings of the Recuay people in Moche art, in all available and preserved media. The study offers an analysis of several dozen complex, painted and bas-relief scenes and several hundred mould-pressed, sculpted depictions of foreigners in Moche art.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789698831 (PDF ebook) :
K'awiil : el dios Maya del rayo, la abundancia y los gobernantes /
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This study of K'awiil analyses one of the most important deities of the Maya pantheon, and allows us to approach the religious thought of this people, since it is through the myths, rituals and other religious and cultural activities in which a deity participates, that we can try to understand how the Maya conceived their universe.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource. :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272382 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Arqueología de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Sudamérica : el asentamiento Nazi de Teyú Cuaré /
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This study reports on a remarkable discovery and a pioneering example of historical archaeology in Latin America: an unknown settlement was found nestled between rocky cliffs in the Argentinian jungle. Dated to between 1943-6, finds are characterised by exotic European luxuries, German coins and coins from the occupied countries of Western Europe.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781803272184 (PDF ebook) :
Contextualización del reconocimiento arqueológico de Eduard Seler en la Región de Chaculá, Departamento de Huehuetenango, Guatemala /
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This study re-examines and contextualises Eduard Seler's investigations in the Chaculá-Region, Guatemala. A new study of the Ethnological Museum Berlin's materials from the region, including previously undocumented ceramics, reveals a chronology suggesting that the major settlements were occupied from the Late Classic to the Early Postclassic.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License"--Title page verso. :
1 online resource (x, 394 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803272863 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Aquatic adaptations in Mesoamerica : subsistence activities in ethnoarchaeological perspective /
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This text explores the subsistence strategies that ancient Mesoamericans implemented to survive and thrive in their environments. It discusses the natural settings, production sites, techniques, artifacts, cultural landscapes, traditional knowledge, and other features linked to human subsistence in aquatic environments.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789699128 (PDF ebook) :
El renacer de los Reyes : imagen, contexto y significado del friso de Balamkú, Campeche, México /
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The frieze of Structure 1-A Sub of Balamk,͠ Campeche, is one of the most complex Maya artistic expressions of the Classic period (250-900 AD). This study places the frieze within its historical framework so the monument may be better understood and the significance of its message revealed.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273518 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Palaces and courtly culture in ancient Mesoamerica /
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Mesoamerica is one of the cradles of early civilizations in the ancient world, featuring a wide diversity of cultures exhibiting a high degree of social inequality and stratification. At the pinnacle of the society was the ruler, the court and the high elite. This social segment was responsible for the creation and consumption of the hallmarks of civilizations, including monumental architecture, great monolithic monuments and a wide array of highly decorated, exotic and exceptional material culture. As such royal courts defined the very tastes and styles that characterise entire civilizations. This volume collects eight recent and innovative studies on the subject rulership, palatial compounds and courtly culture by staff and students of the American Indian Languages and Culture studies programme at Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784910518 (PDF ebook) :