Research Catalog

Title

The archaeology of mural painting at Pañamarca, Peru / Lisa Trever ; with contributions by Jorge Gamboa, Ricardo Toribio, and Ricardo Morales.

Author

Trever, Lisa

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2017]

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Details

Description

xvi, 350 pages; 27 cm.

Summary

The archaeological site of Pañamarca was once a vibrant center of religious performance and artistic practice within the ancient Moche world. During the seventh and eighth centuries CE, architects and mural painters created lofty temples and broad-walled plazas that were brilliantly arrayed with images of mythological heroes, monstrous creatures, winged warriors in combat, ritual processions, and sacrificial offerings. This richly illustrated volume offers a nuanced account of the modern history of exploration, archaeology, and image making at Pañamarca; it also offers detailed documentation of the new fieldwork carried out by the authors at the site. That fieldwork led to the discoveries of 1,200-year-old mural paintings, presented here in detail for the first time. Created in a cultural context a thousand years before the use of written scripts, the art and architecture of Pañamarca cannot be studied via ancient histories or commentaries, but only through layers of physical evidence from archaeological excavations and documentation. This volume will serve as a definitive reference work on mural painting at Pañamarca, as well as a new primary resource for Pre-Columbian studies and for studies in global ancient art, architecture, and archaeology more broadly.

Series Statement

Studies in Pre-Columbian art and archaeology ; number forty

Uniform Title

Studies in pre-Columbian art and archaeology ; no. 40.

Subject

• Indian mural painting and decoration > Peru > Ancash
• Mochica Indians
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Peru > Ancash
• Mochica
• Fouilles (Archéologie) > Pérou > Ancash
• Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Indian mural painting and decoration
• Pañamarca Site (Peru)
• Ancash (Peru) > Antiquities
• Peru > Ancash
• Peru > Pañamarca Site

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1: Out of the archive, into the field : a modern history of art and archaeology at Pañamarca. Introduction ; Monumental visions within nineteenth-century narratives ; Pañamarca in the shadow of Tello's 1933-1934 Nepeña expeditions ; Art, archaeology, and north coast indigenismo at midcentury ; The discovery and replication of an iconic painting and the true story of its destruction ; Recuperatin episodes in Pañamarca's archaeology since the 1960s ; The art and science of archaeology in the light of history : framing the new illustrated corpus from Pañamarca -- Part 2: Findings of the Pañamarca Documentary Field Project. Pañamarca revisited / Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, Ricardo Toribio, and Ricardo Morales ; Documentation of archaeological contects and mural paintings / Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, Ricardo Toribio, and Ricardo Morales ; Relative and absolute chronologies / Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, and Ricardo Toribio ; Mural iconography in comparative perspective ; Concluding summary of field findings -- Appendix 1: Plotted radiocarbon dates from Pañamarca -- Appendix 2: AMS radiocarbon data -- Appendix 3: Calibrated radiocarbon dates -- Appendix 4: Painting sequence of the Temple of the Painted Pillars.

ISBN

• 9780884024248
• 0884024245

LCCN

• 2017003978
• 40027547803

OCLC

• 995630283
• SCSB-10107175

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library