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Author Silverman, Helaine.

Title The Nasca / Helaine Silverman and Donald Proulx.

Imprint Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  985.27 Si39n 2002    ---  Available
Description xix, 339 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Series The peoples of America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-327) and index.
Contents From pots to people -- Emergence and evolution of the Nasca ceramic tradition -- Life in the desert -- We, the Nasca -- The inhabited landscape -- Symbolic expressions of the natural and supernatural world -- The geoglyphs of the Rio Grande de Nasca drainage -- Religion and ritual -- Headhunting and warfare -- Nasca sociopolitical organization -- After Nasca.
Subject Nazca culture.
Nazca pottery.
Nazca Lines Site (Peru)
Nazca (Peru) -- Antiquities.
Added Author Proulx, Donald A., 1939-
ISBN 0631232249 (PBK.)
063116734X

 
    
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