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The Nasca
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ISBN: 0631232249 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Malden Blackwell

Ancient Nasca settlement and society
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ISBN: 158729429X 9781587294297 0877458162 9780877458166 Year: 2002 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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Nasca society arose on the south coast of Peru two thousand years ago and evolved over the course of the next seven hundred years. Helaine Silverman's long-term, multistage work on the south coast of Peru has established her as one of the world's preeminent authorities on this brilliant and enigmatic civilization. Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society is the first extended treatment of the range of sites occupied by the people responsible for some of the most exquisite art, largest ground drawings, most intense hunting of human heads as trophies, and most ingenious hydraulic engi

A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography : reading a culture through its art
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ISBN: 1587297531 9781587297533 0877459797 9780877459798 Year: 2006 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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For almost eight hundred years (100 BC-AD 650) Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants, animals, birds, and fish of their homeland on Peru's south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today. In this first book-length treatment of Nasca ceramic iconography to appear in English, drawing upon an archive of more than eight thousand Nasca vessels from over 150 public and private collections, Donald Proulx systematically describes the major artistic motifs of this stunning polychrome pottery, interprets the major them

A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography : reading a culture through its art
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ISBN: 0877459797 9780877459798 Year: 2006 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa

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