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Recent investigations in the Puuc region of Yucatán /
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The papers here focus on the history of the Puuc region, Yucatán, incorporating archaeological, architectural, epigraphic, and iconographic studies.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784915452 (ebook) :
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) :
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.
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) :
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.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789699296 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
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) :
Essai bibliographique sur l'archéologie francophone de la mésoamérique = Bibliographical essay upon the French-speaking contributions to Mesoamerican archaeology = Ensayo bibliográ...
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The present bibliography of contributions in French to Mesoamerican studies aims to serve several purposes. For more than a century, Spanish, English and French were the three official languages of the International Congresses of Americanists. This situation stems from historical reasons: the first Congresses took place in Nancy, Luxemburg and Brussels. Since the fifties, the steady growth of Mexican and Central American national researches and the ever-growing weight of United States investigators slowly occulted the French contributions. Conversely, the establishment of research institutions in Belgium, Switzerland, France and Canada facilitated the multiplication of investigation projects in the whole continent, with their correlative publications.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (iv, 242 pages). :
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9781789691009 (ebook) :
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) :
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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"Available both in print and Open Access"--Homepage.
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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696349 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
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) :
Wari women from Huarmey : bioarchaeological interpretation of human remains from the Wari Elite Mausoleum at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru /
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Excavations at the Castillo de Huarmey archaeological site brought to light the first intact burial of female high-elite members of the Wari culture. It was found beneath a large adobe mausoleum, a landmark and focal point of the lower Huarmey Valley. Abundant grave goods, among which were precious metal artefacts, luxurious pottery, beautifully decorated bone and wooden objects, as well as spinning and weaving utensils, leave no doubt about the social status of individuals buried within the main chamber. The very unique character of the find was additionally emphasised by the fact that all of the buried individuals were women, accompanied by two grave guardians, and the remains of ancestors. This book presents the results of bioarchaeological analyses performed to date, and focuses on reconstructing the funeral rite and social status of the deceased.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 152 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691856 (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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784916077 (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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911614 (PDF 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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698602 (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.
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) :
Stone trees transplanted? : Central Mexican stelae of the epiclassic and early postclassic and the question of Maya 'influence' /
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Stelae dating to the Epiclassic (650-900 CE) and Early Postclassic (950-1150 CE) from Tula, Xochicalco, and other sites in Central Mexico have been presented in the archaeological and art historical literature of the last four decades, when they have been addressed at all, as evidence of classic Maya 'influence' on Central Mexican art during these periods. This book re-evaluates these claims via detailed comparative analysis of the Central Mexican stelae and their claimed Maya counterparts.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910112 (PDF 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) :