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Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment

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Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment - Beekman, Christopher S (Editor), and Pickering, Robert B (Editor)
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This volume brings together an international team of contributors to reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico (ca. 300 B.C.-A.D. 500) with museum-based research on the distinctive human figures for which the region is known. These finely made figures and dioramas have attracted the interest of archaeologists, art historians, and museum curators for over a century because of their expressiveness and rich detail, tempered by the sad fact that most of these objects were looted from shaft and chamber tombs ...

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Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment 2016, Gilcrease Museum

ISBN-13: 9780981979991

Hardcover