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Art and the Ancestors: Sculpture from the Cave Complex at Quen Santo, Guatemala (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Earley.

At the site of Quen Santo, Guatemala, a hilltop center overlies an elaborate cave complex. First documented by Eduard Seler, the caves at Quen Santo have also been explored by modern-day archaeologists. Missing from modern analyses of Quen Santo, however, is a consideration of sculpture from the site: Seler recovered almost thirty stone monuments, most related to themes of death, ritual, and the ancestors. In this paper I explore the sculptural corpus of Quen Santo for the first time, arguing...


Art of the Americas: Ancient and Hispanic (1969)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Pal Kelemen.

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Eagle, the Jaguar, and the Serpent, Indian Art of the Americas (1954)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Covarrubias.

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An Empire of Water and Stone: Aztec Kingship and Sacred Landscapes (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine McCarthy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. My project will center around the Acuecuexco Aqueduct Relief (also referred to as the Ahuitzotl’s Aqueduct Relief) and its implications as a monument celebrating a public works project by an Aztec emperor. Only one other comparable example is known to date: the Chapultepec carving of Montezuma II. Although the later carving has received significantly more...


The Human/Animal Continuum in Nasca Sculptural Ceramics (c. 1-450) (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Tierney.

Studies of Nasca polychrome ceramic iconography from many phases identify shamans in various roles. In ceremonial scenes shamans drink from cups filled with the entheogenic pulp of the San Pedro cactus, dance, play instruments, don costumes as supernatural imitators, and preside over rituals related to agriculture. Rarely however, is less immediately understandable ceramic imagery interpreted through the lens of shamanism as a Nasca worldview. Shamanic thinking privileges ambiguousness, trance...


Indian Art in North America: Arts and Crafts
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick J. Dockstader.

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The Maqamat Ship: Context and Comparison of the Iconic Arab Manuscript Painting (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mick de Ruyter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in the Indian Ocean" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The iconic ship illustration in the thirteenth-century Paris 'Schefer' Maqamat manuscript is one of the most significant individual images used in maritime archaeology. This painting was the primary iconographic source for interpretations of the Belitung wreck and for the design and construction of two full-sized replica ships, and...