1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782985903321

Autore

Grieder Terence

Titolo

The art and archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador [[electronic resource] /] / by Terence Grieder ; with James D. Farmer ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2009

ISBN

0-292-79371-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

986.6

Soggetti

Cañari Indians - Ecuador - Cuenca - Antiquities

Indian pottery - Ecuador - Cuenca

Effigy pottery - Ecuador - Cuenca

Pottery figures - Ecuador - Cuenca

Indian seals (Numismatics) - Ecuador - Cuenca

Excavations (Archaeology) - Ecuador - Cuenca

Challuabamba Site (Ecuador)

Cuenca (Ecuador) 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

Introduction to the project -- Pottery wares and forms -- Petrographic analysis of selected ceramics from two sites in Ecuador -- Pottery decoration -- Pottery comparisons -- Effigy vessels and figurines -- Stamps and seals -- Stone and shell -- The burials and their offerings -- Human remains -- Zooarchaeology -- Reconstructing Challuabamba's history.

Sommario/riassunto

Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)—now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador—has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities. Suspecting that Challuabamban ceramics might provide a link between earlier, preceramic culture and later, highly developed Formative period art, Terence Grieder led an archaeological investigation of the site between 1995 and 2001. In this book, he and the team of art historians and archaeologists who excavated at Challuabamba present their findings, which establish the community's importance as a center in a network of trade and artistic



influence that extended to the Amazon River basin and the Pacific Coast. Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador presents an extensive analysis of ceramics dating to 2100-1100 BC, along with descriptions of stamps and seals, stone and shell artifacts, burials and their offerings, human remains, and zooarchaeology. Grieder and his coauthors demonstrate that the pottery of Challuabamba fills a gap between early and late Formative styles and also has a definite connection with later highland styles in Peru. They draw on all the material remains to reconstruct the first clear picture of Challuabamba's prehistory, including agriculture and health, interregional contacts and exchange, red-banded incised ware and ceramic production, and shamanism and cosmology. Because southern Ecuador has received relatively little archaeological study, Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador offers important baseline data for what promises to be a key sector of the prehistoric Andean region.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00426507

Autore

FRIEDELL, Egon

Titolo

Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit : Die Krisis der europäischen Seele von der schwarzen Pest bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. 1.: Einleitung ; Renaissance und Reformation / Egon Friedell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

München, : C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1930

Edizione

[13. bis 17. Auflage]

Descrizione fisica

412 p. ; 26 cm.

Disciplina

394.269

Soggetti

Germania - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia