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Beyond the Nasca Lines: Ancient Life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert

By Christina A. Conlee

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Hardcover:

9780813062020 | Univ Pr of Florida, August 30, 2016, cover price $84.95

Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes: Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru

Product Description: Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society's most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and material objects were sacrificed in secular rites or as offerings to the divine...read more

By J. Marla Toyne (editor)

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9781477309377 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 26, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society's most meaningful religious and symbolic acts.

Paperback:

9781477309636 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, July 26, 2016), cover price $34.95

Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru

By John W. Verano

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9780884024125 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, June 13, 2016, cover price $69.95

Uncovering the Culture of Ancient Peru

By Alix Wood

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9781508146674 | Powerkids Pr, January 15, 2016, cover price $10.00

Library:

9781508146698 | Powerkids Pr, January 15, 2016, cover price $26.25

The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-columbian Andes

Product Description: In this edited volume, Andean wak'asÂidols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratoriesÂplay a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood...read more

By Tamara L. Bray (editor)

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9781607323174 | Univ Pr of Colorado, February 15, 2015, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: In this edited volume, Andean wak'asÂidols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratoriesÂplay a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood.

Paperback:

9780317652857, titled "Dinner Murder Mystery" | Sandlight Pubns, December 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | also contains Dinner Murder Mystery

Chaupisawakasi y la formacion del estado Pukara 400 a.C.-350 d.C. en la Cuenca norte del Titicaca, Peru

Product Description: This book focuses on archaeological sites and artifacts related to the Formative societies known as Qaluyu and Pukara (1400 BC-350 AD). These societies developed in the northern basin of Titicaca, in the Department of Puno, Peru. Focussing on the site of Chaupisawakasi, Chapter 1 describes the natural environment of the northern Titicaca Basin, and in particular the valley of Quilcamayo-Tintiri, a tributary of Azangaro River...read more

By Carlos Zapata Benites

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9781407313337 | Bilingual edition (British Archaeological Reports Ltd, December 31, 2014), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book focuses on archaeological sites and artifacts related to the Formative societies known as Qaluyu and Pukara (1400 BC-350 AD).

Peruvian Featherworks: Art of the Precolumbian Era

Product Description: Of universal appeal and great beauty, Peruvian featherworking was part of a highly sophisticated textile tradition spanning several thousand years. Although these rare treasures, which include vibrantly colored and detailed garments, headdresses, personal ornaments, and ritual objects, have been admired and collected by connoisseurs for decades, this unusual and exquisite art form has not been much investigated or published...read more

By Heidi King

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9780300169799 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 4, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Of universal appeal and great beauty, Peruvian featherworking was part of a highly sophisticated textile tradition spanning several thousand years.

The Life and Writings of Julio C. Tello: America's First Indigenous Archaeologist

Product Description: The father of Peruvian archaeology, Julio Tello was the most distinguished Native American scholar ever to focus on archaeology. A Quechua speaker born in a small highland village in 1880, Tello did the impossible: he received a medical degree and convinced the Peruvian government to send him to Harvard and European universities to master archaeology and anthropology...read more

By Richard L. Burger (editor)

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9781587297830 | 1 edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, June 1, 2009), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The father of Peruvian archaeology, Julio Tello was the most distinguished Native American scholar ever to focus on archaeology.

The Origins and Development of the Andean State

Product Description: This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars, at one time actively engaged in fieldwork in Peru. Beginning with early chiefdom societies living along the Peruvian coast 2000 years before Christ, the authors trace the growing complexity of Andean states and empires over the next 3000 years...read more

By Jonathan Haas (editor), Shelia Pozorski (editor) and Thomas Pozorski (editor)

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9780521331029 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars, at one time actively engaged in fieldwork in Peru.

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9780521104852 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 19, 2009), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars, at one time actively engaged in fieldwork in Peru.

Life and Death at Paloma: Society and Mortuary Practices in a Preceramic Peruvian Village

Product Description: Life and Death at Paloma, when published in 1989, was the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village. It remains a valuable resource used by students and scholars of Andean archaeology. Jeffrey Quilter analyzes the life of Paloma's people during the transition from a hunting-gathering-fishing way of life to a more sedentary horticultural society and offers a study of preceramic Peruvian life through his analysis of this site's graves and their contents...read more

By Jeffrey Quilter

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9780877451945 | 1 edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, January 1, 1989), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Life and Death at Paloma, when published in 1989, was the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village.

Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru: New Discoveries and Interpretations

Product Description: Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world...read more

By Elizabeth P. Benson (editor) and Anita Gwynn Cook (editor)

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9780292708945 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures.

Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru

Product Description: Eight papers, from a symposium of the Pre-Columbian Society of Washington held in 1997, consider the place of human and animal sacrifice in Peru over a 2,000 year period, culminating around 1000 AD. The papers demonstrate that sacrifice played a significant role in the ritual practices of several cultures including Cupisnique, Chavin, Pucara, Nasca, Moche and Huari societies...read more

By Elizabeth P. Benson (editor) and Anita Gwynn Cook (editor)

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9780292708938 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Eight papers, from a symposium of the Pre-Columbian Society of Washington held in 1997, consider the place of human and animal sacrifice in Peru over a 2,000 year period, culminating around 1000 AD.

Explorer of Machu Picchu: Portrait of Hiram Bingham

Product Description: Great book about Hiram Bingham's life.

By Alfred M. Bingham

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9780961360221 | 2 edition (Triune Books, June 1, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Great book about Hiram Bingham's life.

9780965035743 | 2 sub edition (Abeel & Leet Pub, October 1, 1999), cover price $10.01

The Inca World: The Development of Pre-Columbian Peru, A.D. 1000-1534

Product Description: The development of the Inca Empire was complex and often paradoxical. This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archaeological research and Spanish colonial documentation, provides important insights into many questions and contradictions regarding the Inca Empire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Laura Laurencich Minelli (editor) and Mireille Vautier (photographer)

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9780806132211 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The development of the Inca Empire was complex and often paradoxical.

The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru

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By Nigel Davies

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9780140233810 | Penguin USA, January 1, 1998, cover price $17.00

9780044457053, titled "Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850-1925" | Routledge, May 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | also contains Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850-1925

Paracas Art & Architecture: Object and Context in South Coastal Peru

By Anne Paul (editor)

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9780877453277 | Univ of Iowa Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $47.50

Dinner Murder Mystery

By Chet Cunningham

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9780317652857 | Sandlight Pubns, December 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-columbian Andes

Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850-1925

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Alun Howkins

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9780044457060 | Unwin Hyman, May 1, 1991, cover price $62.95 | also contains Advances in Chemical Physics: Surface Properties | About this edition: First Published in 1991.

Paperback:

9780415090667 | Routledge, June 12, 1991, cover price $45.95

9780044457053 | Routledge, May 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | also contains The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru

Paracas Ritual Attire: Symbols of Authority in Ancient Peru

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By Anne Paul

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9780806122304 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $48.50 | About this edition: Book by Paul, Anne

Apus and Incas: A Cultural Walking and Trekking Guide to Cuzco, Peru

Product Description: Apus & Incas describes both treks and day hikes around Cuzco, Peru including the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and hikes in the Cordilleras Vilcabamba, Vilcanota, and Urubamba. Detailed maps of the mountain areas and their tails are included as well as travel tips, trek preparations, and descriptions of wildlife and local customs...read more

By Charles Brod

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9780961829612 | 2 edition (Inca Expeditions, April 1, 1989), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Apus & Incas describes both treks and day hikes around Cuzco, Peru including the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and hikes in the Cordilleras Vilcabamba, Vilcanota, and Urubamba.

Portrait of an Explorer: Hiram Bingham, Discoverer of Machu Picchu

Recounts the life of the explorer, archaeologist and historian, describes how he located the lost city of Machu Picchu, and briefly depicts his political career

By Alfred M. Bingham

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9780813801360 | 1 edition (Iowa State Pr, January 30, 1989), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Recounts the life of the explorer, archaeologist and historian, describes how he located the lost city of Machu Picchu, and briefly depicts his political career

The Egyptian and Inca Gold Traders: A Theory Explaining How and Why Ancient Egyptians Came to Peru : In Search of Gold

Product Description: Book by Grable, Donovan B.

By Donovan B. Grable

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9780944709047 | 1 edition (Reflections Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Grable, Donovan B.

Pathways to the Gods: The Mystery of the Andes Lines

The standard work on the Nasca linesâhuge lines and figures etched on a desolate Peruvian plain near the Andes. (view table of contents)

By Tony Morrison

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9780897332828 | Chicago Review Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $14.95

9780586083468 | Academy Chicago Pub, September 1, 1983, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The standard work on the Nasca linesâhuge lines and figures etched on a desolate Peruvian plain near the Andes.

Lines to the Mountain Gods: Nazca and the Mysteries of Peru

Product Description: Book by Hadingham, E., Hadingham, Evan

By Evan Hadingham

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Hardcover:

9780394542355 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1987, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Looks at the myths and theories surrounding the Nazca people of Peru

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9780806121307 | Reprint edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, March 1, 1988), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Hadingham, E.

The Mystery of the Nasca Lines

By Tony Morrison

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Hardcover:

9781869901066 | Intl Specialized Book Service Inc, October 1, 1987, cover price $29.50

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