Royal Tombs of Sipan = Tumbas Reales de Sipan - Hardcover

Alva, Walter; Donnan, Christopher B.; University Of California, Los Angeles Fowler Museum Of Cultural Histor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0930741293 ISBN 13: 9780930741297

Publisher: Univ of California Museum of, 1993

Synopsis

This fascinating and very accessible book describes the excavation of three royal tombs of the Moche, a civilization that flourished on the north coast of Peru between A.D. 100 and 800. The tombs, which contained extraordinary gold and silver jewelry and ceremonial attire, are the richest ever excavated archaeologically in the Western Hemisphere. The detailed accounts of the tombs and methods of excavation will be useful for scholars, but the authors have made the non-specialist reader their primary audience. A skillfully designed format and fold-out pages are helpful in relating tomb artifacts to text descriptions. Providing an exemplary view of an ancient culture, the Sipn tombs have had a profound impact on our understanding of Moche civilization.

About this title

About the Author:

Walter Alva is Chief Archaeologist of the excavations at Sipn and Director of the Bruning Archaeological Museum in Lambayeque, Peru. Christopher B. Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of California Museum of
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0930741293
• ISBN 13: 9780930741297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 228