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Beyond the Nasca Lines: Ancient Life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert
Christina A. Conlee
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Description for Beyond the Nasca Lines: Ancient Life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert
hardcover. This book focuses on the site La Tiza, the longest continuously occupied site in the Wari Empire, and therefore provides invaluable insights into the rise and fall of the Wari state. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 658.
Inhabited for over 5000 years before European colonization, the site of La Tiza in Peru’s Nasca Desert provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the dynamics of ancient complex societies. This volume takes a long temporal perspective on La Tiza from the Preceramic through the Inca era, studying the site within the context of broader developments such as the rise of Nasca culture, subsequent conquest by the Wari Empire, collapse, abandonment, and the reformation of a new society.
Christina Conlee synthesizes data she obtained while directing a multi-year excavation at the site with data from other investigations to reconstruct the ... Read more
Inhabited for over 5000 years before European colonization, the site of La Tiza in Peru’s Nasca Desert provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the dynamics of ancient complex societies. This volume takes a long temporal perspective on La Tiza from the Preceramic through the Inca era, studying the site within the context of broader developments such as the rise of Nasca culture, subsequent conquest by the Wari Empire, collapse, abandonment, and the reformation of a new society.
Christina Conlee synthesizes data she obtained while directing a multi-year excavation at the site with data from other investigations to reconstruct the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813062020
SKU
V9780813062020
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About Christina A. Conlee
Christina A. Conlee is associate professor of anthropology at Texas State University, USA.
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