Ancient Nasca settlement and society / / Helaine Silverman
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| Autore: |
Silverman Helaine
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| Titolo: |
Ancient Nasca settlement and society / / Helaine Silverman
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 985/.27 |
| 985.27 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Cahuachi Site (Peru) |
| Grande River Watershed (Peru) Antiquities | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ancient Nasca settlement and society |
| ISBN: | 9781587294297 |
| 158729429X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910958460103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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