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Pyramids of Túcume : the quest for Peru's forgotten city

Title
Pyramids of Túcume : the quest for Peru's forgotten city / Thor Heyerdahl, Daniel H. Sandweiss, and Alfredo Narváez.
Author
Heyerdahl, Thor.
Publication
New York : Thames and Hudson, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Sandweiss, Daniel H.
  • Narváez, Alfredo.
Description
240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm
Subject
  • Indian architecture > Lambayeque (Province)
  • Indians of South America > Lambayeque (Province) > Antiquities
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Lambayeque (Province)
  • Túcume Site (Peru)
  • Lambayeque (Peru : Province) > Antiquities
  • Peru > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.
Contents
1. Tucume and the Maritime Heritage of Peru's North Coast -- 2. Tucume: A Temple City Called Purgatory -- 3. Cultural Background and Regional Prehistory -- 4. The Pyramids of Tucume: The Monumental Sector -- 5. The Maritime Connection: Huaca Las Balsas -- 6. Life in Ancient Tucume: Sector V -- 7. Death in Ancient Tucume: The South Cemetery and Huaca Facho -- 8. Peak of the Past: La Raya Mountain -- 9. Tucume Past -- 10. Tucume and the Continuity of Peruvian Culture.
ISBN
0500050767 :
LCCN
95060012
OCLC
ocm33203554
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries