Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↑ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↑ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 36 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £54 (36 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £54 - £54

Price levels: 1 different prices over 36 days

Description

Although ancient civilizations in the Andes are rich in history?with expansive empires, skilled artisans, and vast temple centers the history of the Andean foothills on the south coast of present-day Peru is only now being unveiled. Nasca, a prehispanic society that flourished there from AD 1 to 750, is best known for its polychrome pottery, its enigmatic geoglyphs (the Nasca Lines?), and its ceremonial center, Cahuachi, which was the seat of power in early Nasca. However, despite the fact that archaeologists have studied Nasca civilization for more than a century, until now they have not pieced together the daily lives of Nasca residents. With this book, Kevin Vaughn offers the first portrait of village life in this ancient Andean society. Vaughn is interested in how societies develop and change, in particular their subsistence and political economies, interactions between elites and commoners, and the ritual activities of everyday life. By focusing on one village, Marcaya, he not only illuminates the lives and relationships of its people but he also contributes to an understanding of the more general roles played by villages in the growth of increasingly complex societies in the Andes. By examining agency in local affairs, he is able for the first time to explore the nature of power in Nasca and how it may have changed over time. By studying village and household activities, Vaughn argues, we can begin to appreciate from the ground up such essential activities as production, consumption, and the ideologies revealed by rituals, nd thereby gain fresh insights into ancient civilizations.

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0816527067
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Archaeology > By Region
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 March 2009
Listed Since: 14 November 2008

Barcode

No barcode data available

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

The Ancient Andean Village: Marcaya in Prehispanic Nasca

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Peruvian Prehistory: An Overview of Pre-Inca and Inca Society

New Technologies for Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru (Natural Science in Archaeology)

Archaeological Interpretations: Symbolic Meaning Within Andes Prehistory

Anthropological History of Andean Polities

How the Incas Built Their Heartland: State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru (History, Languages & Cultures of the Spanish & Portuguese Worlds)

The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies

Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic, and Symbolic Dimensions (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective

AMAROKAY: Una aproximación a la real historia andina

The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities

Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-2 (Monographs): 77

The The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru: Volume I: The figurines of the North Coast: 1941 (British Archaeological Reports International Series)

Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes (CILAS Sussex Latin American Library)

Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics (Archaeology in Society)

Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky (Historical & Cultural Astronomy)

Architecture & Power Ancient Andes: The Archaeology of Public Buildings (New Studies in Archaeology)

Imagining Modernity in the Andes

An Archaeology of Social Transformations: Recreating Worlds After Collapse

Der Umgang mit dem Erbe der Nasca-Kultur in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture

Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power (Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism)

Ancient Civilizations Of The New World (Essays in World History)

Silver "Thieves," Tin Barons, and Conquistadors: Small-Scale Mineral Production in Southern Bolivia (Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

The Ancient Andean Village: Marcaya in Prehispanic Nasca

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Peruvian Prehistory: An Overview of Pre-Inca and Inca Society

New Technologies for Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru (Natural Science in Archaeology)

Archaeological Interpretations: Symbolic Meaning Within Andes Prehistory

Anthropological History of Andean Polities

How the Incas Built Their Heartland: State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru (History, Languages & Cultures of the Spanish & Portuguese Worlds)

The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies

Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic, and Symbolic Dimensions (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective

AMAROKAY: Una aproximación a la real historia andina

The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities

Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-2 (Monographs): 77

The The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru: Volume I: The figurines of the North Coast: 1941 (British Archaeological Reports International Series)

Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes (CILAS Sussex Latin American Library)

Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics (Archaeology in Society)

Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky (Historical & Cultural Astronomy)

Architecture & Power Ancient Andes: The Archaeology of Public Buildings (New Studies in Archaeology)

Imagining Modernity in the Andes

An Archaeology of Social Transformations: Recreating Worlds After Collapse

Der Umgang mit dem Erbe der Nasca-Kultur in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture

Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power (Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism)

Ancient Civilizations Of The New World (Essays in World History)

Silver "Thieves," Tin Barons, and Conquistadors: Small-Scale Mineral Production in Southern Bolivia (Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas)