Izapa Relief Carving: Form, Content, Rules for Design, and Role in Mesoamerican Art History and Archaeology
- ISBN-10
- 0884021084
- ISBN-13
- 9780884021087
- Category
- Social Science / Archaeology
- Pages
- 103
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Authors
- Jeffrey H. Miller, Linda Schele
Description
A new series ... concerned chiefly with objects in the Robert Woods Bliss Collection.
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