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) :
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. :
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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) :
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) :
Metallurgy in ancient Ecuador : a study of the collection of archaeological metallurgy of the Ministry of Culture, Ecuador /
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Metallurgical activity was present in Ecuador from at least 1500 BC; by around the beginning of the Common Era metallurgical manufacture and use had extended to most of the Costa and Sierra. Regional styles soon evolved giving rise to high levels of technical craftsmanship and to shaping particular iconographic and decorative patterns. Copper, gold, silver and platinum were mined, processed and converted into thousands of ornaments, offerings, tools and weapons extensively used both by elites and by the common people. This work discusses this topic.
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1 online resource : illustrations (colour). :
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9781784911614 (PDF ebook) :
Estudio antropológico de las estructuras cefálicas en una colección osteológica procedente de Chinchero (Perú) /
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This work presents an anthropological study of crania and mandibles from the osteological collection from Chinchero (Peru), currently housed at the American Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of the Complutense University of Madrid.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784912680 (PDF ebook) :
Tarascan pottery production in Michoacán, Mexico : an ethnoarchaeological perspective /
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This work examines a contemporary pottery tradition in Mesoamerica, but also looks back to the earliest examples of cultural development in this area. By means of ethnographic analogy and ceramic ecology, this study seeks to shed light on a modern indigenous community and on the theory, method and practice of ethnoarchaeology.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xii, 170 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784916749 (ebook) :
La ocupación cazadora-recolectora durante la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno en el oeste de Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil : geoarqueología de los sitios en la formación sedimentaria T...
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This work presents the results obtained during geoarchaeological studies carried out in the locality of Touro Passo, Brazil. New chronologies obtained represent a scientific advance for the study of hunter-gatherer occupations during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene in the triple border of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919146 (ebook) :
La industria lítica bifacial del sitio en cantera Chipana-1 : conocimiento y técnica de los grupos humanos del Desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile al final del Pleistoceno /
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The site of Chipana-1 is located in the middle of the Atacama Desert, in the Pampa del Tamarugal. The site is a good example of past societies adaptation to hyper-arid environments, and provides new insights into the early human occupations of South America. The well-preserved stratigraphic record, together with 13 radiocarbon dates, show that the site was occupied around 11,480 cal BP. Chipana-1 is a lithic raw-material extraction and workshop site, of a silicified rock of good quality, mainly related to the production of bifacial tools (façonnage), and to a lesser extent, of flakes (débitage) on surface. This is the first site in northern Chile that provides information on the first stages of lithic production, such as raw-material selection and reduction (dégrossissage).
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 106 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781784919122 (ebook) :
Aprovechamiento de vertebrados terrestres por las poblaciones humanas que habitaron la costa del Golfo San Matías (Río Negro, Argentina) durante el Holoceno tardío /
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This text presents the results and discussion of archaeofaunal studies which took place in the northern San Matías Gulf (Río Negro Province) during the last six years, focusing on terrestrial mammals and birds.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690125 (ebook) :
"Los animales enseñaron el camino..." : la fauna de la Sierra Gorda queretana a través de sus representaciones cerámicas arqueológicas /
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This volume examines the past fauna of the Sierra Gorda region of Mexico, declared a 'Biosphere Reserve' in 1997 by presidential decree, and its representation in archaeological ceramics. These representations are then related to the oral traditions of the inhabitants of the region that have been preserved until now.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (iv, 83 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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9781789698602 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Ancient engineering : selective ceramic processing in the Middle Balsas region of Guerrero, Mexico /
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This volume has two main objectives: establishing a chronology of the Middle Balsas and detailing the region's pottery production methods. The author posits that pottery intended for different functions was often deliberately made and/or decorated in ways that were chosen to make the vessels more appropriate for their intended functions.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xiv, 352 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916510 (ebook) :
Paisajes en un sector de la Quebrada de Humahuaca durante la Etapa Agroalfarera : Arqueología de Tumbaya (Jujuy, Argentina) /
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This is a landscape and ceramics study of Tumbaya located in Quebrada de Humahuaca (northern Argentina). The research aims to improve understanding of local pre-Inca societies and the impact of Inca domination on them from different lines of evidence.
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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789694901 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Filiaciones culturales y contactos entre las poblaciones Virú-Gallinazo y Mochica (200 AC-600 DC, costa norte del Perú) /
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This volume documents the pottery traditions to understand both their origins, filiations, and contacts, studying the modes of manufacture of archaeological ceramics discovered at more than nine sites in the region, preserved at the Ministry of Culture of Peru and various Peruvian, French and American museums.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (xxxviii, 430 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273983 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.