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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450817003321

Autore

Silverman Helaine

Titolo

Ancient Nasca settlement and society [[electronic resource] /] / Helaine Silverman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002

ISBN

1-58729-429-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

985/.27

Soggetti

Nazca culture - Peru - Grande River Watershed

Nazca pottery - Peru - Grande River Watershed

Excavations (Archaeology) - Peru - Grande River Watershed

Geoglyphs - Peru - Grande River Watershed

Land settlement patterns - Peru - Grande River Watershed

Electronic books.

Cahuachi Site (Peru)

Grande River Watershed (Peru) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. To Be Human is to Dwell; 2. Environmental Paradoxes; 3. Survey Methodology; 4. Site 165; 5. Nasca 1 Settlement Patterns; 6. Nasca 2 Settlement Patterns; 7. Nasca 3 Settlement Patterns; 8. Nasca 4 Settlement Patterns; 9. Nasca 5 Settlement Patterns; 10. Nasca 6 Settlement Patterns; 11. Nasca 7 Settlement Patterns; 12. Nasca 8/Loro Settlement Patterns; 13. Nasca Settlement Patterns in Other Valleys; 14. The Identifiable Components of Nasca Settlement Patterns; 15. Reconstruction of Nasca Economy; 16. Theorizing Nasca Society

17. Nasca Archaeology in the Twenty-First CenturyBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nasca society arose on the south coast of Peru two thousand years ago and evolved over the course of the next seven hundred years. Helaine Silverman's long-term, multistage work on the south coast of Peru has established her as one of the world's preeminent authorities on this brilliant and enigmatic civilization. Ancient Nasca Settlement and



Society is the first extended treatment of the range of sites occupied by the people responsible for some of the most exquisite art, largest ground drawings, most intense hunting of human heads as trophies, and most ingenious hydraulic engi