Ceramics Of Ancient America

Author : Yumi Park Huntington,Dean E. Arnold,Johanna Minich
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813052410

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Ceramics of Ancient America by Yumi Park Huntington,Dean E. Arnold,Johanna Minich Pdf

This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald

Author : Karl-Ferdinand Schädler,Hans Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040366572

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Ceramics from Black-Africa and ancient America by Karl-Ferdinand Schädler,Hans Wolf Pdf

Author : G. H. S. Bushnell,Adrian Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Pottery, American
ISBN : OCLC:1153472734

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Ancient American Pottery by G. H. S. Bushnell,Adrian Digby Pdf

Author : Alexander von Wuthenau
Publisher : Crown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015009277552

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The Art of Terracotta Pottery in Pre-Columbian Central and South America by Alexander von Wuthenau Pdf

Author : Frederic Ward Putnam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010360738

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Conventionalism in Ancient American Art by Frederic Ward Putnam Pdf

Author : Michael Glascock,Hector Neff,Kevin J. Vaughn
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Archaeological chemistry
ISBN : 9780826360281

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Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America by Michael Glascock,Hector Neff,Kevin J. Vaughn Pdf

This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, the essays by leading archaeologists working in South America illustrate the diversity of ceramic provenance investigations taking place in seven different countries. An introductory chapter provides a background for interpreting compositional data, and a final chapter offers a review of the individual projects. Students, scholars, and researchers in archaeological study on the interactions between the indigenous peoples of South America and studies of their ceramics will find this volume an invaluable reference.

Author : Prudence M. Rice,W. David Kingery
Publisher : Wiley-American Ceramic Society
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015054391647

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Ceramics and Civilization, Volume VII by Prudence M. Rice,W. David Kingery Pdf

A collection of 14 papers presented in a one day symposia held at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 1996. The contributors explore the variability of kilns both chronologically and geographically, stressing new data to emerge from recent archeological excavations at sites in North, Central, and South America. Topics in firing structures, brick and tile making and glass production are explored in the areas of neolithic Greece, the third millennium Indus valley, imperial China, the US Southwest, coastal Peru, during the Classic period of Mesoamerica, and in Renaissance Italy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Gilda Hernández Sánchez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004204409

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Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest by Gilda Hernández Sánchez Pdf

Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous Mesoamerican world after the Spanish conquest.

Author : Samuel Birch
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020127066

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History Of Ancient Pottery by Samuel Birch Pdf

A scholarly work on the history and archaeology of ancient pottery, covering the pottery of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and other civilizations. The book includes detailed illustrations and descriptions of many different types of pottery, and discusses the social and cultural context in which they were produced. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Yumi Park
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781617038198

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Mirrors of Clay by Yumi Park Pdf

Mirrors of Clay: Reflections of Ancient Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection features photographs and descriptions of sixty ceramic vessels from ancient Andean American cultures, including the Cupisnique, Chavín, Vicús, Nazca, Moche, Tiwanaku, Lambayeque, and Chimú, which flourished between 1200 BCE and 1550 CE. These distinctive ceramic vessels, selected from the collection of Sam Olden, were given to the Mississippi Museum of Art and are included in a special exhibition presented by the museum and Jackson State University. The pieces reveal each culture's stylistic aesthetics, religious ideologies, and political roles. The Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels presented in this catalogue are mainly from the Andean region of South America, which includes the modern countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. By analyzing technologies, forms, and decorative designs, author Yumi Park reveals the unique aesthetics, social stratifications, religious ideologies, and political roles within each culture. Ancient Andean potters expressed their native individualities by depicting the forms of warriors, deities, architecture, flora, fauna, and daily life on their ceramic vessels. Collector Sam Olden lived in Peru during the 1960s. After visiting various archaeological sites and museums, including the Rafael Larco Herrera Museum in Peru, he became enamored with the ceramic vessels of the ancient Andes. Olden later settled in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and began to build an extensive collection of ancient Andean ceramics, eventually making a large donation to the Mississippi Museum of Art. Because of his passion for these artifacts, the people of Mississippi are now afforded a window on the ancient Andean world. The Sam Olden Collection gives us tangible and visible evidence of the social activities, political events, and ideological beliefs of ancient Andean cultures.

Author : James John Aimers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813042572

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Ancient Maya Pottery by James John Aimers Pdf

The ancient Maya produced a broad range of ceramics that has attracted concerted scholarly attention for over a century. Pottery sherds--the most abundant artifacts recovered from sites--reveal much about artistic expression, religious ritual, economic systems, cooking traditions, and cultural exchange in Maya society. Today, nearly every Maya archaeologist uses the type-variety classificatory framework for studying sherd collections. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and represents new findings and state-of-the-art thinking. The result is a book that serves both as a valuable resource for archaeologists involved in pottery classification, analysis, and interpretation and as an illuminating exploration of ancient Mayan culture.

Author : Stephen Plog
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1980-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521225817

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Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics by Stephen Plog Pdf

Plog argues that there are many more factors that cause design or stylistic variations on prehistoric artifacts than have been previously acknowledged. Using data primarily from the American Southwest, he shows why the methods of design analysis that have been used are often inappropriate, and presents a new framework of explanation.

Author : Sandra L. López Varela
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784917371

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Innovative Approaches and Explorations in Ceramic Studies by Sandra L. López Varela Pdf

This book celebrates thirty years of Ceramic Ecology, an international symposium initiated at the 1986 American Anthropological Association. Contributions explore the application of instrumental techniques and experimental studies to analyze ceramics and follow innovative approaches to evaluate methods and theories.

Author : George Kubler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300053258

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The Art and Architecture of Ancient America by George Kubler Pdf

Offers a survey of the paintings and architecture of the Mexican, Mayan, and Andean peoples

Author : William Henry Holmes
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021466646

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Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos by William Henry Holmes Pdf

This book provides a detailed analysis of prehistoric pottery in the American Southwest. The author explains the various techniques used by ancient Pueblo cultures to create pottery, and how these techniques evolved over time. The book also includes over 1,000 illustrations of ancient pottery, making it an essential resource for anyone interested in Native American art and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.