Books on Art and Architecture
The Geoglyphic Art of Chile’s Atacama Desert - Chilean Glyphic Art
There are over 5,000 geoglyphs in the Atacama Desert, and like the Nazca lines, they are mysterious, beautiful and awe-inspiring. Although we can't know the entire reason they were built, researcher Luis Briones believes they are part sign post and part story-telling along a transportation network in an ancient form of combined religious and...
In the Maw of the Earth Monster
In the new book "In the Maw of the Earth Monster", James Brady and Keith Prufer have provided us non-specialists with a survey of the research into caves in and around Mesoamerica, both a regional survey and a theoretical survey.
Magnificent Objects: A Review
Magnificent Objects is a new large-format book of beautiful color photographs of artifacts from the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, giving the reader a taste for the art history of the world's peoples.
Moche Portraits
Christopher Donnan's book, Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru, gives a great introduction and insight into this most personal of prehistoric ceramic art.
The New World Figurine Project
The New World Figurine Project is the brainchild of Terry Stocker, who in the mid-1980s began to collect articles--new and classic--on ceramic figurines of North, Central and South America.