Books written by Elizabeth P. Benson
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Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 18th and 19th, 1975
Museo Arqueológico Adán Quiroga , Catamarca ( No. 166 ) . e . With four anthropomorphic heads ( trophy heads ? ) and two amphisbaenas . Belén or Santa María culture . Talamayo , Department of Belén , Province of Catamarca .
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Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits
... Prematka de las Tapadas (Madrid, J r>4 r }. 6ov. 22. Margas coronadas, secretaría personal de la Presidencia, Mexico, D.E, 1978, 23. Rene Taylor et al., José Campeche y su Tiempo (Ponce, P.R.: Museo de Arte de Ponce, 1988), 1 68-69.
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Collected Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology
This volume contains three monographs from the series of Collected Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archeology. Johannes Wilbert looks at the use and decoration of spindles, focusing on those from Ecuador.
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Mesoamerican Writing Systems: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 30th and 31st, 1971
1933 The Phonetic Value of Certain Characters in Maya Writing . With an introduction by Alfred M. Tozzer . Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology , Harvard University , vol . XIII , no . 2. Cambridge .
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Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. until Inca ...
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The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru
Such a being personified a force to be reckoned with, a forefather or a deity of the ancestors, identified with nature or the power to ... Bernabé Cobo (1990 [1653]: Bk. 1, Ch. 11) spoke of huacas as having divinity residing in them.
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The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru
Now in this volume, she draws on decades of knowledge, as well as the findings of other researchers, to offer a grand overview of all that is currently known about the Moche.
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The Cult of the Feline: A Conference in Pre-Columbian Iconography, October 31st and November 1st, 1970
The Cult of the Feline: A Conference in Pre-Columbian Iconography, October 31st and November 1st, 1970
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The Maya World
The Maya World
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The Maya World
The Maya World
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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Latin America
Drawing on an extensive set of images (many of them previously unpublished) from the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and...