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  • Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador

    by Terence Grieder, James D. Farmer, David V. Hill, Peter W. Stahl, Douglas H. Ubelaker ...
    Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)—now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador—has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities. Suspecting that Challuabamban ceramics might provide a link between earlier, preceramic culture and later, highly developed Formative period art, Terence Grieder led an ... Read more

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  • Ancient Maya Commerce

    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edited by Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Read more

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  • Megafauna

    Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America

    by Richard A. Fariña, Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Gerry De Iuliis ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    "An enjoyable read that provides a substantial amount of detail on the biology, ecology, and distribution of these fantastic animals . . . Highly recommended." — ChoiceMore than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ... Read more

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  • Sabertooth

    by Mauricio Antón ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    "A unique review of the many unusual and nearly worldwide occurrences of sabertooths and their relatives over more than 50 million years." — ChoiceWith their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that ... Read more

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  • Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys

    The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America

    by Darin A. Croft ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A thrilling guide to the Cenozoic mammals of South America, featuring seventy-five life reconstructions of extinct species, plus photos of specimens and sites.South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth—giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world's largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals that ... Read more

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  • Physical Geology and Geological History of South America

    by Edward Revollo ...
    This work intent to give an introduction to the basic principles and concepts of geology for all those are interested in the understanding and learn about all the processes and phenomena that formed and shaped the Earth, since its formation, around 4,800 million years before present (BP). Early geologists, makes its task of studying and interpreting these processes, contributed to display the ... Read more

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  • The Neanderthal's Necklace

    In Search of the First Thinkers

    by Juan Luis Arsuaga ...
    Translated by Andy Klatt ...
    Neanderthals are at the center of this compelling narrative by Europe's leading anthropologist, not because they were our ancestors but because they were not. Members of a parallel humanity that evolved in Europe for hundreds of thousands of years, they were in direct competition with Cro-Magnons -- modern humans. The way Neanderthals lived and the reasons why they disappeared 50,000 years ago ... Read more

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  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    by Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... 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

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  • Yutopian

    Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina

    by Joan M. Gero ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly, people were also producing and circulating exotic goods: polychrome ceramics, copper and gold ... Read more

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  • Bamboo furniture. Phyllostachys aurea

    by Virginia Carmiol Umaña ...
    Phyllostachys aurea is a manual the pretends to bring out the many possibilities that bamboo offers. The work describes the different varieties and species of this plant, and in plain language and with illustrations, describes techniques for the manufacture of craft products, as well as a synthesis on design and ergonomic factors specific to furniture. ... Read more

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  • Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

    An Encyclopedia

    Edited by Susan Toby Evans, David Webster ...
    This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar ... Read more

    $94.99 USD