La Mina : a royal Moche tomb / Christopher B. Donnan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnan, Christopher B., author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Peru.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mochica Indians--Peru--Antiquities.

Mochica Indians.

Tombs--Peru.

Tombs.

Antiquities.

Mochica Indians--Antiquities.

Peru--Antiquities.

Peru.

Physical Description:

xi, 152 pages : illustrations (mostly color), color maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : Uniiversity of New Mexico Press, [2022]

Summary:

La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world, nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb's contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and embellished.0With more than two hundred color images of the archaeological treasures unearthed at La Mina--remarkable works in ceramic and metal that are among the greatest masterpieces of art from the ancient world--students and scholars will welcome the mystery of how careful archaeological sleuthing can piece together valuable information to recover what seemed to be unrecoverable.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical refrences (pages 143-144) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0826363490

9780826363497

9780826363503

0826363504

OCLC:

1274200352

Publisher Number:

99991250019