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  • Archaeology of Greater Nicoya

    Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica

    Edited by Larry Steinbrenner, Alexander Geurds, Geoffrey G. McCafferty, Silvia Salgado ...
    The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya is the first edited volume in a quarter century to provide an overview of this fascinating archaeological subarea of Mesoamerica, encompassing Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Inhabited by diverse peoples of Mesoamerican origin centuries before Spanish colonization, Greater Nicoya remains controversial in the twenty-first century as scholars struggle ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Real, Recent, or Replica

    Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration

    by Joanna Ostapkowicz, Arlene Alvarez, Lesley-Gail Atkinson Swaby, Amanda Byer, Roger Colten, Mariana C. Françozo, Alexander Geurds, Elena Guarch Rodríguez0, José R. Oliver1, John G. Swogger2, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas3, Donna Yates4, Dr. Corinne L. Hofman5, Vernon James Knight Jr.6, Dr. Jonathan A. Hanna8, Menno L. P. Hoogland Jr.9 ...
    Series series Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE, 2022Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materialsReal, Recent, or Replica: Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration is the first book-length study of its kind to highlight the increasing commodification o... ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Edited by Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Read more

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  • Rituals of the Past

    Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

    Edited by Silvana Rosenfeld, Stefanie Bautista ...
    Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, ... Read more

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  • Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

    Edited by Ilana Johnson, David Pacifico, Robyn E. Cutright ...
    Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often ... Read more

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  • Ancient People of the Andes

    by Michael A. Malpass ...
    In Ancient People of the Andes**, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest**. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

    by Deborah L. Nichols, Christopher A. Pool ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Incas

    Edited by Sonia Alconini, R. Alan Covey ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas. Just over a century earlier, military campaigns began to extend power across a broad swath of the Andean region, bringing local societies into new relationships with colonists and officials who represented the Inca state. With Cuzco as its capital, the Inca empire encompassed a multitude ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors

    Settlement Patterns, Architecture, Hieroglyphic Texts and Ceramics

    Edited by Geoffrey E Braswell ...
    The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central Mexico. Seldom if ever are the Maya and their Central American neighbors of El Salvador and Honduras ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Palenque

    Recent Investigations at the Classic Maya Center

    by Edwin L. Barnhart, Joshua A. Balcells Gonzalez, Mark B. Child, Arnoldo Gonzalez Cruz, Kirk D. French, Peter Matthews, Robert L. Rands, Merle Greene Robertson, Kirk D. Straight, Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo, David Stuart, C Rudy Larios Villata ...
    Palenque is one of the best known and oldest Mayan archaeological sites. But recently little has been published on the ongoing work here. Marken's collection brings the archaeological record of Palenque up to date. Chapters cover a wide range of topics from architecture to hieroglyphic texts, from broad issues of chronology to settlement to theoretical and methodological issues concerning ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Museum Matters

    Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections

    Edited by Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, Sandra Rozental ...
    This is a book about objects. Stones, ruins, bones, mummies, mannequins, statues, photographs, fakes, instruments, and natural history specimens all formed part of Mexico’s National Museum complex at different moments across two centuries of collecting and display.Museum Matters traces the emergence, consolidation, and dispersal of this national museum complex by telling the stories of its objects ... Read more

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  • Fanning the Sacred Flame

    Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson

    Edited by Matthew A. Boxt, Brian D. Dillon ...
    Series series Mesoamerican Worlds
    Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, and ethnographers--students, colleagues, and friends who derived inspiration and encouragement from him ... Read more

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