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The Measure and Meaning of Time in Mesoamerica and the Andes
Sacred Matter
Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas examines animism in Pre-Columbian America, focusing on the central roles objects and places played in practices that expressed …
Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places
With spears and arrows, atl-atls and slings, the people of the New World fought to defend themselves against European invasion and conquest. Over a century of scholarship on …
Past Presented
New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization
Tombs for the Living
In the Andes, a long history of research on burial records and burial contexts exists for the purpose of reconstructing cultural affiliation, chronology, socioeconomic status, …
Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past
Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice
Epitomizing the radiating sun and perpetuating the cycles of life and time, fire was--and continues to be--a central force in the Mesoamerican cosmos. Mesoamericans understood heat …
The Art of Urbanism
"The Art of Urbanism" explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an …
Mesoamerican Writing Systems
Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica
Archaeology of Formative Ecuador
No single symposium or volume could do justice to the amount of information now available on Ecuadorian prehistory. This volume and the symposium on which it was based are devoted, …