" This volume, the third in a series of catalogues of Pre-Columbian art at Dumbarton Oaks, presents the outstanding collection of Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, and Classic Veracruz sculpture, jewelry, and painting. Four leading scholars present essays on the ancient art and archaeology of Mexico’s Central Highlands, Southwestern Highlands, and Gulf Lowlands as well as extensive catalogue entries of over one hundred objects of jad ..."
"Isla Cuadrado, Johny (2009) From Hunters to Regional Lords: Funerary Practices in Palpa, Peru, in Markus Reindel and ... Kaulicke, Peter (1994) Los Orígenes de la Civilización Andina: Arqueología del Perú, in José Antonio del Busto (ed.) ..."
The Ancient Central Andes(1st Edition) (Routledge World Archaeology) by JeffreyQuilter Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67309-9, ISBN: 0-415-67309-7
"The Ancient Central Andes presents a general overview of the prehistoric peoples and cultures of the Central Andes, the region now encompassing most of Peru and significant parts of Ecuador, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina. The book contextualizes past and modern scholarship and provides a balanced view of current research. Two opening chapters present the intellectual, political, and practical background and history ..."
"The Prehistoric Occupation of Chavín de Huántar. Berkeley: University of
California Press. Burger, Richard L., Frank Asaro, Ernesto Salazar, Helen V.
Michel & Fred H. Stross (1994) Ecuadorian Obsidian Sources Used for Artifact
Production and Methods for Provenience Assignments. Latin American Antiquity
5 (3): 257–277. Burger, Richard L. & Ramiro Matos Mendieta (2012) Atalla: A
Center on the Periphery of the Chavín Horizon. Latin Am ..."
The Ancient Central Andes(1st Edition) (Routledge World Archaeology) by JeffreyQuilter Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67310-5, ISBN: 0-415-67310-0
"The Ancient Central Andes presents a general overview of the prehistoric peoples and cultures of the Central Andes, the region now encompassing most of Peru and significant parts of Ecuador, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina. The book contextualizes past and modern scholarship and provides a balanced view of current research. Two opening chapters present the intellectual, political, and practical background and history ..."
"IowaCity: University ofIowa Press. Aldenderfer, Mark,Nathan M. Craig, RobertJ.
Speakman, &Rachel Popelka Filcoff (2008) Fourthousandyearold gold
artifactsfrom the LakeTiticaca basin, southern Peru. Proceedings of the
NationalAcademy of Sciencesof the UnitedStatesofAmerica 105 (13): 5002–5005
. Allen, Catherine(2002) TheHold That LifeHas: CocaandCultural Identity in an
Andean Community. Washington, D.C.: SmithsonianBooks. Alva, Compl ..."
The Civilization of the Incas (Illustrated History of the Ancient World) by JeffreyQuilter Library, 232 Pages, Published 2012 by Rosen Pub Group ISBN-13: 978-1-4488-8499-5, ISBN: 1-4488-8499-3
"Presents a heavily illustrated look at the history, civilization, and culture of the Incas and their predecessors, from ancient antiquity to the Spanish conquest and early colonial period."
"... 99 DA/Museo Arqueologico de la Universidad Nacional San Antonio de Abad
del Cusco; 100-101 SAP /Tony Morrison; 102 NGS/Museo de Metales Preciosos
Precolombino, La Paz/Kenneth Garrett; 103 MV; 104 MV; 105 WEA/Museum fiir
Volkerkunde, Berlin; 106-107 NGS/Kenneth Garrett; 108 jBT/Hoover Institute,
Stanford University; 110 DA/Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini,”
Rome; 111 jBT/AMNH; 113 NGS/Kenneth Garrett; 114 jK/DO; ..."
"These lavishly illustrated treasuries of world cultures, civilization, religions, art, and architecture are one-of-a-kind, eye-catching, must-have resources. A wealth of rich history, compelling details, and hundreds of full-color photographs bring to vibrant life the cultures and civilizations of India and Southeast Asia, China, and the Islamic and Incan empires. With vivid writing paired with gorgeous imagery, these books open a porta ..."
Treasures of the Incas(1st Edition) Nazca, Moche and the Pre-Colombian Civilisations of the Andes by JeffreyQuilter Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Duncan Baird Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-84483-956-8, ISBN: 1-84483-956-7
"The world's longest mountain chain, the Andes, dominates western South America from north to south, and for millennia has been home to the continent's richest civilisations. Only in the past century have we begun to grasp the scale of the material destruction wrought by European colonisers. Enough has survived, however, to testify to great artistic skill and breathtaking imagination of these civilisations. If you thought South American ..."
"Written to accompany an upcoming exhibition, "To Capture the Sun: Gold of Ancient Panama" explores the Gilcrease Museum's collection of Pre-Columbian gold for the first time since its acquisition in the 1940s. The collection, from the Gran CoclE culture of Panama, consists of more than 250 gold objects from early Panama, including effigy pendants, pectorals, cuffs, bands, ear rods, and bells, as well as a ceramics collection.More than a ..."
The Moche of Ancient Peru Media and Messages (Peabody Museum Collections Series) by JeffreyQuilter Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2011 by Peabody Museum Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87365-406-7, ISBN: 0-87365-406-4
" Peru’s ancient Moche culture is represented in a magnificent collection of artifacts at Harvard’s Peabody Museum. In this richly illustrated volume, Jeffrey Quilter presents a fascinating introduction to this intriguing culture and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion. Quilter utilizes the Peabody’s collection as a means to investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly ceramics, ..."
Narrative Threads Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu by JeffreyQuilter, Gary Urton 391 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-77433-9, ISBN: 0-292-77433-8
"... Les Ecritures figuratives et hiéroglyphiques des différents peuples anciens et
modernes (de Rosny 1870: 20–21).1 Yet it was not until the 1990s thatscholarly
attention focused onthis syllabic method of writing withkhipu. In1989,Carlo
Animato, Paolo Rossi, and Clara Miccinelli publishedpart of a manuscript
purporting to be the original document purchased bydi Sangro fromFather Illanes
(Animato, Rossi, and Miccinelli 1989; seealso ..."
" Download a corrected version of the map of the Lake Titicaca region. Download a corrected version of page 83. Download a corrected version of the map of the Huatanuay and Vilcanota-Urubama Valley region. Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. While the Inka have been tr ..."
Chavin Art, Architecture, and Culture by William J. Conklin, JeffreyQuilter 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Isd Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-938770-44-9, ISBN: 1-938770-44-7
"Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. 1995 Chavín and the Origins
ofAndean Civilization. 2nd rev. ed. Thames and ... Burger, R. L., and R. B. Gordon
1998 Early Central Andean metalworking from Mina Perdida, Peru. ... 1994 La
organización dual en el ceremonial andino temprano: Un repaso comparativo."
" This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, "Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economi ..."