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Title Teotihuacan : art from the city of the gods / edited by Kathleen Berrin and Esther Pasztory.

Imprint New York : Thames and Hudson : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1994, c1993.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  709.7252 T265, 1994    ---  Available
Edition First paperback edition
Description 288 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.
Note "The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. De Young Museum, 26 May through 31 October 1993"-- Verso of t.p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-284) and index.
Contents The place where time began: an archaeologist's interpretation of what happened in Teotihuacan history / R. Millon -- Teotihuacan unmasked: a view through art / E. Pasztory -- The role of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerican archaeology / M. C. S. Puche -- Unknown treasures: the unexpected in Teotihuacan art / K. Berrin -- Daily life in the Teotihuacan apartment compounds / L. Manzanilla -- Human sacrifice at the Temple of the Feathered Serpent: recent discoveries at Teotihuacan / R. Cabrera Castro -- Funerary practices and human sacrifice in Teotihuacan burials / C. S. Sanchez -- What we still don't know about Teotihuacan / G. L. Cowgill -- Symbols, signs, and writing systems / J. C. Langley -- The age of Teotihuacan and its mission abroad / C. Chase Coggins -- Teotihuacan and its Mexica legacy / E. M. Moctezuma and L. Lopez Lujan.
Subject Indians of Mexico -- Art -- Exhibitions.
Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico) -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Berrin, Kathleen.
Pasztory, Esther.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
ISBN 0500277672 (paper)

 
    
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