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Ever since its scientific discovery, the great Nasca site of Cahuachi on the south coast of the Central Andes has captured the attention of archaeologists, art historians, and the general public. Until Helaine Silverman's fieldwork, however, ancient Nasca culture was seen as an archaeological construct devoid of societal context. Silverman's long-term, multistage research as published in this volume reconstructs Nasca society and contextualizes the traces of this brilliant civilization (ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 600).Silverman shows that Cahuachi was much larger and more complex than port

Nazca culture. --- Nasca culture --- Indians of South America --- Antiquities --- Nazca (Peru) --- Cahuachi Site (Peru) --- Peru --- Nasca (Peru) --- Antiquities. --- Culture de Nazca --- Nazca (Pérou) --- Cahuachi (Pérou : Site archéologique) --- Antiquités

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Nasca [Civilisation de ] --- Nasca culture --- Nasca-cultuur --- Nazca [Civilisation de ] --- Nazca culture --- Nazca-cultuur --- Nazca [province] --- Peru --- Nazca pottery --- Pottery, Nazca --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Indians of South America --- Antiquities --- Nazca Lines Site (Peru) --- Nazca (Peru) --- Nasca Site (Peru) --- Nazca Site (Peru) --- Nasca (Peru) --- Antiquities. --- Civilization

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Nasca society arose on the south coast of Peru two thousand years ago and evolved over the course of the next seven hundred years. Helaine Silverman's long-term, multistage work on the south coast of Peru has established her as one of the world's preeminent authorities on this brilliant and enigmatic civilization. Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society is the first extended treatment of the range of sites occupied by the people responsible for some of the most exquisite art, largest ground drawings, most intense hunting of human heads as trophies, and most ingenious hydraulic engi

Nazca culture --- Nazca pottery --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Geoglyphs --- Land settlement patterns --- Patterns, Land settlement --- Settlement patterns --- Human geography --- Land settlement --- Gravel pictographs --- Picture-writing --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Pottery, Nazca --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Nasca culture --- Indians of South America --- Antiquities --- Cahuachi Site (Peru) --- Grande River Watershed (Peru) --- Peru --- Antiquities.

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Nazca pottery --- Nazca culture. --- Idols and images --- Céramique de Nazca --- Culture de Nazca --- Idoles et images --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Peru --- Pérou --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Céramique de Nazca --- Thèmes, motifs --- Pérou --- Antiquités --- Nazca culture --- Pottery, Nazca --- Nasca culture --- Iconography --- Images and idols --- Religious images --- Statuettes --- Themes, motives --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Indians of South America --- Animism --- Art, Primitive --- Art and religion --- Fetishism --- Magic --- Religion --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Symbolism --- Gods in art --- Antiquities --- Iconography, Religious --- Religious iconography --- Religious statuettes --- Statuettes, Religious --- Religious art