La Mina - A Royal Moche Tomb (Hardcover)

La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world, nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb's contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and embellished. With more than two hundred color images of the archaeological treasures unearthed at La Mina--remarkable works in ceramic and metal that are among the greatest masterpieces of art from the ancient world--students and scholars will welcome the mystery of how careful archaeological sleuthing can piece together valuable information to recover what seemed to be unrecoverable.

General

Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2022
Authors:	Christopher B Donnan
Dimensions:	279 x 216mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-8263-6349-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8263-6349-0
Barcode:	9780826363497

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