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Ancient Nasca settlement and society / Helaine Silverman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverman, Helaine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nazca culture--Peru--Grande River Watershed.
- Nazca culture.
- Nazca pottery--Peru--Grande River Watershed.
- Nazca pottery.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Peru--Grande River Watershed.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Geoglyphs--Peru--Grande River Watershed.
- Geoglyphs.
- Land settlement patterns--Peru--Grande River Watershed.
- Land settlement patterns.
- Cahuachi Site (Peru).
- Grande River Watershed (Peru)--Antiquities.
- Grande River Watershed (Peru).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587294297
- 158729429X
- OCLC:
- 779693842
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