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  title info:
    title: Chavin and the origins of Andean civilization
  name:
    name part: Burger, Richard L.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    place:
      place term: Nueva York
    publisher: THAMES AND HUDSON
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 248 p. il. col.
  abstract: Of the six independent centres of civilization in world prehistory, probably the least well known is Chavin de Huantar, high up in the Andes, where South America's oldest complex culture arose during the first millennium BC andcreated its earliest known city. The Chavin style dominated Peruvian art and architecture for hundreds of years and influenced all that came after. But what was the exact nature of this style? How did Chavin civilization develop, and whydid it eventually collapse? New answers are emerging after unprecedented discoveries made over the past two decades. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of these findings, including his own excavations at Chavin and elsewhere, ProfessorBurger argues controversially - that the first monumental architecture and great art in the Andes were created by economically egalitarian pre-Chavin societies. It is now known that such pre-state cultures built massive truncated pyramidsas ancient as those of Old Kingdom Egypt. Chavin civilization represents a synthesis of these traditions, forged through the impact of long-distance trade and a new religious ideology. Accompanied by a wealth of photographs, drawings andmaps, it will be of great interest to art historians as well as archaeologists and students of comparative civilization.
  target audience: Culturas originarias de América
  note: Richard L.Burger.
  subject:
    topic: REGION ANDINA
    topic: CIVILIZACION
  subject:
    topic: CULTURA CHAVIN
  subject:
    topic: ARQUEOLOGIA
    geographic: PERU
  subject:
    topic: ANTROPOLOGIA
  identifier: 0500278164
  record info:
    record content source: UAHC_CL
    record creation date: 041129
    record change date: 20170803122137.0
    record identifier: 022626