Download or read book Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture written by Izumi Shimada and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism. This book presents a "biography" of Pampa Grande that offers a reconstruction not only of the site itself but also of the sociocultural and economic environment in which it was built and abandoned. Izumi Shimada argues that Pampa Grande was established rapidly and without outside influence at a strategic position at the neck of the Lambayeque Valley that gave it control over intervalley canals and their agricultural potential and allowed it to gain political dominance over local populations. Study of the site itself leads him to posit a large resident population made up of transplanted Mochica and local non-Mochica groups with a social hierarchy of at least three tiers.
Download or read book Mochica written by Even Hovdhaugen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mochica Paracas and Nazca written by Joan Witek and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Man and a Feline in Mochica Art written by Elizabeth P. Benson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Peruvian Ceramics written by Alan R. Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Art from Mexico to Peru written by Lajos Boglár and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arqueolog a mochica written by Luis Jaime Castillo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Se reúne 27 ensayos de jóvenes investigadores quienes estudian el desarrollo de la sociedad Mochica y otras sociedades complejas de la costa norte del Perú. Los temas tratados fueron: prácticas funerarias, sistemas de producción, identidades individuales y colectivas, arquitectura, etc.
Download or read book Peru written by Rafael Larco Hoyle and published by Cleveland : World Publishing Company. This book was released on 1966 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pre Columbian Art written by Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art of Ancient Peru written by Georgia Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art of Ancient Peru the Paul A Clifford Collection written by Georgia Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru written by Elizabeth P. Benson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings depicting supernatural figures and rituals. Highly skilled Moche artisans crafted remarkable ceramic vessels, which they painted with figures and scenes or modeled like sculpture, and mastered metallurgy in gold, silver, and copper to make impressive symbolic ornaments. They also wove textiles that were complex in execution and design. A senior scholar renowned for her discoveries about the Moche, Elizabeth P. Benson published the first English-language monograph on the subject in 1972. Now in this volume, she draws on decades of knowledge, as well as the findings of other researchers, to offer a grand overview of all that is currently known about the Moche. Touching on all significant aspects of Moche culture, she covers such topics as their worldview and ritual life, ceremonial architecture and murals, art and craft, supernatural beings, government and warfare, and burial and the afterlife. She demonstrates that the Moche expressed, with symbolic language in metal and clay, what cultures in other parts of the world presented in writing. Indeed, Benson asserts that the accomplishments of the Moche are comparable to those of their Mesoamerica contemporaries, the Maya, which makes them one of the most advanced civilizations of pre-Columbian America.
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Prehispanic Irrigation and Polity in the Lambayeque Sphere Peru written by James Lee Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of Ancient America written by George Kubler and published by [Harmondsworth, Middlesex] : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1962 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of the paintings and architecture of the Mexican, Mayan, and Andean peoples.
