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The Nasca
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Helaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx are archaeologists specializing in the ancient Nasca culture of southern Peru, and this Blackwell volume, part of the Peoples of America series, is their standard synthesis of Nasca archaeology, including the dating and the proposed ritual functions of the famous Nasca Lines geoglyphs. Its strength is comprehensive synthesis by two of the field's most published specialists, drawing together decades of excavation and survey data on Nasca society and religion. Its limit is that as a synthesis it necessarily presents the authors' own interpretive framework for the geoglyphs' ritual meaning among several scholarly proposals, so a claim asserting one single settled explanation for the Lines should note that their function remains a subject of ongoing archaeological debate.
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AuthorHelaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx
PublisherBlackwell
Publication Year2002
URLhttps://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Nasca-p-9780631167341
Source TypeMonograph
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Published by Blackwell as Silverman and Proulx's academic archaeological synthesis of Nasca civilization, peer reviewed university-level scholarship. NotesThe standard synthesis of Nasca archaeology, including the dating and the ritual reading of the geoglyphs.
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Source The NascaHelaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx This source names Peru directly: "the ancient Nasca culture of southern Peru, and this Blackwell volume, part of the Peoples of America series, is their standard synthesis of Nasca archaeology, including the dating and the proposed..."
Source The NascaHelaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx Claims Backed By This Source (36 claims)
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
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- Sacred Sites, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Subcategories, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Cultures, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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