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This work presents a new study of Alpine prehistory between two critical moments of its cultural development - the advent of peasant economies and the rising of the first …
This study focuses on the iconography of the superb Mayan sculpture in the northern Yacatan. Specifically it concentrates on freestanding sculpture (stelae, altars and statues) and …
Western values imposed on pre-Columbian practices are obstacles in the understanding of the relationship between the skull-rack (tzompantli) and the ball-court . The impact of a …
This study looks at the introduction of bronze technology in Syria/Mesopotamia and its subsequent diffusion and social consequences for the history of the region in the second …
Detailed analysis of excavations undertaken at Koumbi Saleh in today's Mauretania. With stunning results, the author argues that the architectural remains, dated from the 9th to …
This work is dedicated to the after-life beliefs and mortuary practices of the ancient Aztecs. The ultimate aim is to establish how the Aztecs understood death and to define …
This study uses archaeometry to analyse the religious murals of the pre-Incan Mochicha civilization of Peru. It reconstructs the processes followed in the creation of the murals, …