A unique study of an Andean community's water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performedIn the dry season in the Andes, water from springs, …
An in-depth look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period, plus a complete visual catalog of the cave art of Naj Tunich.In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian …
The eighth and seventh centuries BCE were a time of flourishing exchange between the Mediterranean and the Near East. One of the period s key imports to the Hellenic and Italic …
An “utterly lucid, thoughtfully illustrated, and thoroughly convincing” book on the origins of the world’s oldest known system of writing (American Journal of Archaeology). One of …
New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico, from the earliest gathered plants, such as guajes, to the contemporary production …
A thousand years ago, the Comitan Valley, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, was the western edge of the Maya world. Far from the famous power centers of the Classic period, the …
Poggio Civitate in Murlo, Tuscany, is home to one of the best-preserved Etruscan communities of the eighth through the sixth centuries BCE. In this book, Anthony Tuck, the director …
Winner, Association for Latin American Art-Arvey Foundation Book Award, 2022More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and …
This volume brings together leading scholars of Etruria to provide up-to-date findings from the key archaeological site of Kainua. Located in what is now the Italian town of …
Reputed to be the richest city of Etruria, Veii was one of the most important cities in the ancient Mediterranean world. It was located ten miles northwest of Rome, and the two …
