Cahuachi in the ancient Nasca world / by Helaine Silverman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverman, Helaine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nazca culture.

Cahuachi Site (Peru).

Nazca (Peru)--Antiquities.

Nazca (Peru).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ever since its scientific discovery, the great Nasca site of Cahuachi on the south coast of the Central Andes has captured the attention of archaeologists, art historians, and the general public. Until Helaine Silverman's fieldwork, however, ancient Nasca culture was seen as an archaeological construct devoid of societal context. Silverman's long-term, multistage research as published in this volume reconstructs Nasca society and contextualizes the traces of this brilliant civilization (ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 600).Silverman shows that Cahuachi was much larger and more complex than port

Contents:

CONTENTS; A Note on Orthography; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE The Physical Setting; CHAPTER TWO A History of Fieldwork in the Nazca Region; CHAPTER THREE Nasca Chronology; CHAPTER FOUR Strong's Fieldwork at Cahuachi: Chronology and Culture; CHAPTER FIVE Surface Survey of Cahuachi; CHAPTER SIX Architecture and Spatial Organization at Cahuachi; CHAPTER SEVEN Looters and Looting; CHAPTER EIGHT Excavation Strategy and Methodology; CHAPTER NINE Excavations in an Open Area; CHAPTER TEN Excavation at Unit F; CHAPTER ELEVEN Test Pits; CHAPTER TWELVE Excavation of Mound Architecture

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Excavation of the Room of the PostsCHAPTER FOURTEEN Burials at Cahuachi; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Trophy Heads at Cahuachi; CHAPTER SIXTEEN Nasca Pottery at Cahuachi; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Other Ceramic Artifacts; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Textile Artifacts; CHAPTER NINETEEN Artifacts in Other Media; CHAPTER TWENTY Botanical Remains; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Malacological Analysis by María del Carmen Rodríguez de Sandweiss; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Identification of Cahuachi as a Ceremonial Center; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Significance and Broader Context of Cahuachi; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-360) and index.

ISBN:

9781587292231

1587292238

OCLC:

775873073