TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burger,Richard L.
TI  - Chavin and the origins of Andean civilization
SN  - 0500278164
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Nueva York
PB  - THAMES AND HUDSON
KW  - REGION ANDINA
KW  - CIVILIZACION
KW  - CULTURA CHAVIN
KW  - ARQUEOLOGIA
KW  - PERU
KW  - ANTROPOLOGIA
KW  - Seelenfreund, Andrea
N1  - Culturas originarias de América
N2  - 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
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