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Signs of the Casas Grandes Shamans
Vanpool, Christine S, Vanpool, Todd L
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Description for Signs of the Casas Grandes Shamans
Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HD; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
Casas Grandes, or PaquimÉ, in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, was home to a religious system that swept across northern Mexico and what is now the southern United States between AD 1200 and 1450. To commemorate this religion the people of Casas Grandes created striking polychrome pots with black and red geometric and naturalistic designs on a cream base. Their pottery provides a window to Casas Grandes cosmology.
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Casas Grandes, or PaquimÉ, in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, was home to a religious system that swept across northern Mexico and what is now the southern United States between AD 1200 and 1450. To commemorate this religion the people of Casas Grandes created striking polychrome pots with black and red geometric and naturalistic designs on a cream base. Their pottery provides a window to Casas Grandes cosmology.
Looking through this window, authors Christine and Todd VanPool find a world ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9780874808742
SKU
V9780874808742
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Ref
99-15
About Vanpool, Christine S, Vanpool, Todd L
Christine S. VanPool is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Todd L. VanPool is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Reviews for Signs of the Casas Grandes Shamans
"It is increasingly clear that Paquimé and its associated sites represent the only clear intrusion of Mesoamerican high culture into the Greater Southwest. The implications for understanding just about every aspect of protohistoric Southwestern culture are enormous."—Carroll Riley, emeritus professor of anthropology, Southern Illinois University "...a significant contribution to the Casas Grandes literature."—American Antiquity