This well-illustrated, concise text will serve as a benchmark study of the Nasca people and culture for years to come.

The Nasca (Peoples of America)

History

Silverman, Helaine

Proulx, Donald

Americas

Wiley/Blackwell

This well-illustrated, concise text will serve as a benchmark study of the Nasca people and culture for years to come.

The Nasca

Provides bibliographical information and descriptions of books, journal articles, and exhibition catalogs on ancient Peruvian art from many countries and in many languages, focusing on the Central Andes from 1500 BC to 1532. Most annotations are brief, with extended annotations in the case of major works and complex arguments, and note shortcomings, originality, and quality and number of illustrations. Includes a historiographic essay on research in the field. For scholars and students of the art of ancient Peru. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Ancient Peruvian Art: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Publication in Art History)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

G.K. Hall

Ever since its scientific discovery, the great Nasca site of Cahuachi on the south coast of the Central Andes has captured the attention of archaeologists, art historians, and the general public. Until Helaine Silverman's fieldwork, however, ancient Nasca culture was seen as an archaeological construct devoid of societal content. Silverman's long-term, multistage research as published in this volume reconstructs Nasca society and contextualizes the traces of this brilliant civilization (ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 600). Silverman shows that Cahuachi was much larger and more complex than portrayed in the current literature but that, surprisingly, it was not a densely populated city. Rather, Cahuachi was a grand ceremonial center whose population, size, density, and composition changed to accommodate a ritual and political calendar. Silverman meticulously presents and interprets an abundance of current data on the physical complexities, burials, and artifacts of this prominent site; in addition, she synthesizes the history of previous fieldwork at Cahuachi and introduces a corrected map and a new chronological chart for the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage system. On the basis of empirical field data, ethnographic analogy, and settlement pattern analysis, Silverman constructs an Andean model of Nasca culture that is crucial to understanding the development of complex society in the Central Andes. Written in a clear and concise style and generously illustrated, this first synthesis of the published data about the ancient Nasca world will appeal to all archaeologists, art historians, urban anthropologists, and historians of ancient civilizations.

Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World

University Of Iowa Press

Nasca society arose on the south coast of Peru 2000 years ago and evolved over the course of the next 700 years. This text examines the range of sites occupied by the people responsible for some of the most exquisite art and ingenious hydraulic engineering of the pre-Columbian world.

Ancient Nasca Settlement (Volume 1)

Broken Images: The Figured Landscape of Nazca

Badger, Gerry

PARKER,DAVID

Photography & Video

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Cornerhouse Publications

The Space and Place of Death (ARCHEOLOGICAL PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION)

Politics & Social Sciences

Small, David B.

Anthropology

Blackwell Pub.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Silverman, Helaine. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Silverman, Helaine