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Ancient West Mexico

art and archaeology of the unknown past

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An edition of Ancient West Mexico (1998)

Ancient West Mexico

art and archaeology of the unknown past

1st ed.

"Encompassing the modern states of Jalisco, Colima, and Nayarit, the archaeological region of ancient West Mexico is renowned for its spectacular earthenware tomb sculpture, the legacy of societies that flourished there between 200 B.C. and A.D. 800. This book and the major exhibition it accompanies document the splendid accomplishments of the region, bringing together more than 220 of the finest examples of its sculpture from both public and private collections worldwide.".

"The essays are supplemented by maps, archaeological site plans, tomb reconstructions, and photographs of the West Mexican landscape."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
308

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Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past
September 1998, Thames & Hudson
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Ancient West Mexico: art and archaeology of the unknown past
1998, Thames and Hudson, Art Institute of Chicago
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Ancient West Mexico: Art and archaeology of the unknown past
1998, Art Institute of Chicago
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Table of Contents

Pt. 1.
The Teuchitlan tradition : an archaeological prospect.
The Teuchitlan tradition : rise of a statelike society -- Phil C. Weigand, Christopher S. Beekman
Excavating the tomb at Huitzilapa -- Lorenza López Mestas Camberos, Jorge Ramos de la Vega
Mortuary practices in the shaft-tomb region -- Robert B. Pickering, Maria Teresa Cabrero -- Pt. 2.
Interpreting the tomb sculptures of ancient West Mexico.
Food for the dead : the West Mexican art of feasting -- Kristi Butterwick
Before gods, before kings -- Richard F. Townsend
Sacred sun centers -- Christopher L. Witmore
The West Mexican ballgame -- Jane Stevenson Day
Shamanistic symbolism, transformation, and deities in West Mexican funerary art -- Peter T. Furst
The iconography of rulership in ancient West Mexico -- Mark Miller Graham.
Pt. 3.
Comparative views.
Natural resources and human settlements in ancient West Mexico -- Otto Schöndube
The Sayula Basin : ancient settlements and resources -- Francisco Valdez
They came to trade exquisite things : ancient West Mexican-Ecuadorian contacts -- Patricia Rieff Anawalt
The evolution of complex societies in West Mexico : a comparative perspective -- Joseph B. Mountjoy -- Pt. 4.
A modernist perspective.
West Mexican art and modernist artists -- Barbara Braun.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-305).
"This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past,' organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and presented in the museum's Regenstein Hall from September 5 to November 22, 1998. The exhibition was also presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from December 20 to March 29, 1999"--T.p. verso.

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Other Titles
Art and archaeology of the unknown past

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Dewey Decimal Class
972/.3/007477311
Library of Congress
F1219 .A597 1998

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Pagination
308 p. :
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL390708M
ISBN 10
0500050929, 0865591717
LCCN
98060252
OCLC/WorldCat
40456689
Library Thing
243860
Goodreads
2953957

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