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Beyond the Nasca lines : ancient life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert

Title: Beyond the Nasca lines : ancient life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert / Christina A. Conlee.
Author: Conlee, Christina A.
Publication: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

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Description

xiii, 294 pages; 25 cm

Summary

This book focuses on the site La Tiza, the longest continuously occupied site in the Wari Empire, and therefore provides invaluable insights into the rise and fall of the Wari state.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ancient society in Nasca: an introduction -- The dynamics of complex societies -- Life in the Nasca Desert -- Earliest inhabitants: the beginnings of complexity -- Farmers in the desert: the development of complexity -- The Nasca culture: civilization in the desert -- The middle horizon: imperial entanglement and collapse -- Local resurgence: the regeneration of complexity -- The rise and fall of complex societies in Nasca.

ISBN

9780813062020
0813062020

LCCN

2016015348
40026330782

OCLC

ocn928607275
928607275
SCSB-5863035

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Columbia University Libraries