Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture write by Izumi Shimada. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism. This book presents a "biography" of Pampa Grande that offers a reconstruction not only of the site itself but also of the sociocultural and economic environment in which it was built and abandoned. Izumi Shimada argues that Pampa Grande was established rapidly and without outside influence at a strategic position at the neck of the Lambayeque Valley that gave it control over intervalley canals and their agricultural potential and allowed it to gain political dominance over local populations. Study of the site itself leads him to posit a large resident population made up of transplanted Mochica and local non-Mochica groups with a social hierarchy of at least three tiers.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Handbook of Latin American Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Latin American Studies write by Dolores Moyano Martin. This book was released on 1997-12-01. Handbook of Latin American Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell has been assistant editor since 1994. The subject categories for Volume 55 are as follows: Anthropology (including Archaeology and Ethnology) Economics Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology
How War Began
How War Began - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How War Began write by Keith F. Otterbein. This book was released on 2004. How War Began available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have humans always fought and killed each other, or did they peacefully coexist until organized states developed? Is war an expression of human nature or an artifact of civilization? Questions about the origins and inherent motivations of warfare have long engaged philosophers, ethicists, and anthropologists as they speculate on the nature of human existence. In How War Began, author Keith F. Otterbein draws on primate behavior research, archaeological research, and data gathered from the Human Relations Area Files to argue for two separate origins. He identifies two types of military organization: one that developed two million years ago at the dawn of humankind, wherever groups of hunters met, and a second that developed some five thousand years ago, in four identifiable regions, when the first states arose and proceeded to embark upon military conquests. In careful detail, Otterbein marshals evidence for his case that warfare was possible and likely among early Homo sapiens. He argues from comparison with other primates, from Paleolithic rock art depicting wounded humans, and from rare skeletal remains embedded with weapon points to conclude that warfare existed and reached a peak in big game hunting societies. As the big game disappeared, so did warfare--only to reemerge once agricultural societies achieved a degree of political complexity that allowed the development of professional military organizations. Otterbein concludes his survey with an analysis of how despotism in both ancient and modern states spawns warfare. A definitive resource for anthropologists, social scientists, and historians, How War Began is written for all who areinterested in warfare, whether they be military buffs or those seeking to understand the past and the present of humankind. --Publlisher.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas write by Bruce G. Trigger. This book was released on 1996. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
Iconography for the Living Or the Dead?
Iconography for the Living Or the Dead? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iconography for the Living Or the Dead? write by Kayeleigh Sharp. This book was released on 2009. Iconography for the Living Or the Dead? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mochica cultural reconstructions have been based largely on the analysis of funerary ceramics that contain fineline thematic iconography but context has for the most part been ignored. Previous "ethnographic readings" of Moche fineline themes have not examined the content of non-funerary iconography in specific archaeological contexts, or the relationship between living and funerary iconography based on the contextual data. This investigation addresses these problematic issues by analyzing the artistic content found upon living-context ceramics from the sites of Pampa Grande and the Huacas de Moche. The content is then examined in relation to funerary iconography and the living contexts from which it was derived, testing the fundamental premises underlying reconstructions of the ancient Mochica culture. Although limited data were available, it was found that the well known fineline art style of the Mochica was not in abundance. Ultimately, many questions remain regarding the nature of ancient Mochica society, particularly that which is known through Moche the art.
