"Symposia presented at the Denver Art Museum in 2002 and 2007 focused, respectively, on pre-Columbian art in the museum collection and the art and archaeology of ancient Costa Rica. Edited by Denver Art Museum curator Margaret Young-Sanchez, this lavishly illustrated volume brings together newly revised and expanded symposium papers from pre-Columbian scholars, while paying tribute to the legacy of Denver philanthropist Frederick R. Maye ..."
"Assembled almost entirely by Frederick and Jan Mayer, The Denver Art Museum's collection of ancient Costa Rican art is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, and it is a major component of the museum's acclaimed holdings in New World art. "Nature and Spirit" reveals to the modern world the richness and sophistication of indigenous thought and the incredible beauty of native art in the Americas.Costa Rica boasts an astoun ..."
"The Amazon Basin is now recognized as a cradle of cultural and technological innovation in the ancient Americas. It was there that the hemisphere's earliest known ceramics (ca. 5000 b.c.) were produced. Located at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil, MarajO Island was home to one of the region's most populous and sophisticated ancient societies (a.d. 300-1300). Island chiefdoms built impressive mounds to support multifamily longhous ..."
Tiwanaku Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum by Margaret Young-Sanchez, Jane Doe, Denver Art Museum Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Denver Art Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-9972-6, ISBN: 0-8061-9972-5
"In 2005, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition" Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca." An international array of scholars of Tiwanaku, Wari, and Inca art and archaeology presented results of the latest research conducted in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. This copiously illustrated volume, edited by Margaret Young-Sanchez of the Denver Art Museum, presents revised and amplified papers from the symposium.Essays ..."