Native & Indigenous History - South America & Caribbean, South American History, Art of the Americas, Anthropology, Archaeology, Native South American & Caribbean People, Native Mesoamerican People, Ancient Art, Archaeology, Antiquities
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Overview
This fascinating and very accessible book describes the excavation of three royal tombs of the Moche, a civilization that flourished on the north coast of Peru between A.D. 100 and 800. The tombs, which contained extraordinary gold and silver jewelry and ceremonial attire, are the richest ever excavated archaeologically in the Western Hemisphere. The detailed accounts of the tombs and methods of excavation will be useful for scholars, but the authors have made the non-specialist reader their primary audience. A skillfully designed format and fold-out pages are helpful in relating tomb artifacts to text descriptions. Providing an exemplary view of an ancient culture, the Sipán tombs have had a profound impact on our understanding of Moche civilization.Book Details
Published
April 26, 1995
Publisher
University of California Press
Pages
230
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780930741327