Category: Pre-Colombian

Based on the most recent archaeological discoveries, this volume offers a balanced interpretation of the complex relationships between Aztec cultural practices, social order, and religious myths and symbols. In addition to examining such topics as the ancient Aztec calendar, commerce, art, and human sacrifice, Carrasco considers the impact and influence Aztec culture continues to have on modern Mexican society. Heavily illustrated, this book also includes a chronology of Central Mexico, a glossary, and a selected bibliography.

Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas

By: David L. Lentz

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Columbia University Press: September 2000

Seller ID: 161174

ISBN: 0231111576

Binding: Trade Paperback

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We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of experts from the fields of paleoclimatology, historical ecology, paleontology, botany, geology, conservation science, and resource management, this book unlocks the secret of how the Western Hemisphere's indigenous inhabitants influenced and transformed their natural environment.

A r...
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Copan: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom (Case Studies in Archeology)

By: David L. Webster,Ann Corinne Freter,Nancy Gonlin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing: October 1999

Seller ID: 356427

ISBN: 0155058088

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Webster's case study reconstructs and evaluates the sociopolitical system and culture history of a world-famous Classic Maya Center in the highlands of Western Honduras, whose great temples, palaces, and carved monuments have been investigated since the 1830's. Using material from a series of archaeological excavations begun in 1975 that focused on reconstructing the entire Copan Kingdom, this book presents for the first time an interpretation of the political, demographic, and agricultural history of the entire region. Providing an extensive review of the methods used to reconstruct Copan's h...
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Stonework of the Maya

By: Edward Ranney

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Publisher: University of New Mexico Press: January 1974

Seller ID: 213341

ISBN: 0826302777

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Before Cortes, sculpture of Middle America;: A centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 through January 3, 1971

By: Elizabeth Kennedy Easby

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society: January 1970

Seller ID: 281811

ISBN: 0870990179

Binding: Hardcover

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Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One (Texas Pan American Series)

By: Garcilaso de la Vega

Price: $9.95

Publisher: University of Texas Press: October 1987

Seller ID: 345517

ISBN: 0292770383

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important place in Spanish letters, Garcilaso was fiercely proud of his Indian ancestry and wrote under the name EI Inca.

Royal Commentaries of the Incas is the account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler. For the material in Par...
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Antisuyo;: The search for the lost cities of the Amazon

By: Gene Savoy

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: January 1970

Seller ID: 281813

ISBN: 0671202200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

By: Gisele Daz,Alan Rodgers

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1993

Seller ID: 356184

ISBN: 0486275698

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Considered by many scholars the finest extant Mexican codex and one of the most important original sources for the study of pre-Columbian religion, the Codex Borgia is a work of profound beauty, filled with strange and evocative images related to calendrical, cosmological, ritual, and divinatory matters. Generally similar to such Mixtec manuscripts as the Codex Nuttall, the Codex Borgia is thought to have its origin (ca. A.D. 1400) in the southern central highlands of Mexico, perhaps in Puebla or Oaxaca. It is most probably a religious document that once belonged to a t...
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Seeds of Change

By: Herman J. Viola

Price: $4.95

Publisher: HarperCollins: September 1991

Seller ID: 173944

ISBN: 1560980362

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The great migration

By: J. Fitzgerald Lee

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Skeffington: January 1951

Seller ID: 248257

ISBN: B0007DLYF0

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Daily Life of the Aztecs, on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest

By: JACQUES SOUSTELLE

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Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr: June 1970

Seller ID: 117861

ISBN: 0804707219

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The subject of this book is the life of the Mexicans--the Mexica, as they said themselves--at the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time, in the early 1500s, nobody, from the arid steppes of the north to the burning jungles of the isthmus, from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to the shore of the Pacific, could have believed that this enormous empire, its culture, its art, its gods, were to go down a few years later in a historic cataclysm. The period with which this book is concerned is distinguished from all others by the wealth of its written documentation. The Mexicans were...
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Prehistory of North America

By: Jesse David Jennings

Price: $11.95

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: January 1974

Seller ID: 281806

ISBN: 0070324549

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Last Days of the Incas

By: Kim MacQuarrie

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 2008

Seller ID: 375234

ISBN: 0743260503

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.

In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a hu...
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Valley of the Spirits: A Journey Into the Lost Realm of the Aymara

By: Kolata, Alan L.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Wiley: March 1996

Seller ID: 395339

ISBN: 0471575070

Binding: Hardcover

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In a secluded valley high in the Andes Mountains, long before thetime of the Incas and the Aztecs, the empire of the Aymara rosefrom the shores of Lake Titicaca and flourished for nearly athousand years. The secrets of the Aymara civilization, one of thefirst great empires of the Americas, have only recently beendeciphered from the haunting ruins of their splendid temples, amongwhich their contemporary descendants still live and worktoday.

In Valley of the Spirits, Alan Kolata takes us deep into themystical world of the Aymara, where past and present come togetherand the spirits of ancien...
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The Aztecs

By: Michael E. Smith

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell: November 2002

Seller ID: 325251

ISBN: 0631230165

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This book is a vivid and comprehensive account of the Aztecs, the best-known people of pre-Columbian America. It examines their origins, civilization, and the distinctive realms of Aztec religion, science, and thought. It describes the conquest of their empire by the Spanish, and the fate of their descendants to the present day in Central Mexico, making use of the results of the latest excavations, historical documentation, and the author's first-hand knowledge. There is also a fascinating and detailed account of the daily life of the Aztec people, including their economy, family life, class s...
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Category: Pre-Colombian