Ceramics of Ancient America
Title | Ceramics of Ancient America PDF eBook |
Author | Yumi Park Huntington |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2018-09-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0813052416 |
This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald
Ceramics from Black-Africa and ancient America
Title | Ceramics from Black-Africa and ancient America PDF eBook |
Author | Karl-Ferdinand Schädler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Africa, Sub-Saharan |
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Ancient American Pottery
Title | Ancient American Pottery PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Digby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 158 |
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Ancient America Pottery
Title | Ancient America Pottery PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Ward Putnam |
Publisher | |
Pages | 3 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | Indian pottery |
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Conventionalism in Ancient American Art
Title | Conventionalism in Ancient American Art PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Ward Putnam |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | Art |
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Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America
Title | Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Glascock |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Archaeological chemistry |
ISBN | 0826360289 |
This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, the essays by leading archaeologists working in South America illustrate the diversity of ceramic provenance investigations taking place in seven different countries. An introductory chapter provides a background for interpreting compositional data, and a final chapter offers a review of the individual projects. Students, scholars, and researchers in archaeological study on the interactions between the indigenous peoples of South America and studies of their ceramics will find this volume an invaluable reference.
Little People of the Earth
Title | Little People of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Denver Art Museum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Social Science |
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