Magdalena de Cao : an early colonial town on the north coast of Peru /
During the early Colonial Period in the Americas, as an ancient way of life ended and the modern world began, indigenous peoples and European invaders confronted, resisted and compromised with one another. Yet archaeological investigations of this complex era are rare. Magdalena de Cao is an excepti...
| Uniform Title: | (Peabody Museum Press) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University,
[2020]
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| Series: | Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University ;
vol. 87. |
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| Summary: | During the early Colonial Period in the Americas, as an ancient way of life ended and the modern world began, indigenous peoples and European invaders confronted, resisted and compromised with one another. Yet archaeological investigations of this complex era are rare. Magdalena de Cao is an exception, the first in-depth and heavily illustrated examination of what life was like at one culturally mixed town and church complex during the early Colonial Period in Peru. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 457 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780873652162 0873652169 |