university of iowa press pikillacta the wari empire in cuzco may 2005
university of iowa press pikillacta the wari empire in cuzco may 2005
... 42, and 43 at Pikillacta. 2.1. The Valley of Cuzco. 2.2. The Lucre Basin of the Valley of Cuzco from the air. Pikillacta is in the upper right quadrant. Courtesy of Servicio Aerofotográfico Nacional, ... report in chapter 3 of the excavations and the investiga - tive strategy used. In chapter 4 I discuss the labor costs of the construction of th...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:35
university of calgary press space and spatial analysis in archaeology dec 2005
... extension of the Precolumbian settlement by their inhabitants. In fact, the remains of the ancient city have quite varied meanings for the local modern Maya. Regardless, towards the end of the Early ... location within the landscape, it is striking that many of the petroglyphs examined are within a direct and clear line -of- sight to the volcano. Despite the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 16:57
university of iowa press twelve millennia archaeology of the upper mississippi river valley may 2003
... automobile was invented a tenth of an inch ago, and the age of computers occupies only the last one-thirtieth of an inch. The more than 11 inches before these events represent the time the region ... natural landmark, having been cut off from both the Wisconsin and Minnesota bluff lines during the glacial meltwater floods. The westernmost of these bluffs, called Trempea...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:35
university of california press spacefaring the human dimension mar 2001
... and a rethinking of the next steps for establishing a con- tinuing human presence in space. The key to maintaining a human presence in space, affordable only through cooperation with the U.S. Air ... some of them, sailing off the edge of the world was a serious prospect. Many of these sailors were cut off from their native lands for years at a time, and some of them ne...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:46
university of iowa press ancient nasca settlement and society nov 2002
... particular interest in the Nasca -Wari interface (prompted by the discovery of the Nasca 8/Loro offerings in the Room of the Posts at Ca- huachi; see Silverman 1988b, 1993a: chap. 13). Theoretically, the ... anyone seeking information on my opinion of the Nasca occu- pation of the Ingenio Valley and middle Grande Valley. Stated uncertainties in the present book...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 15:50
university of texas press before the volcano erupted the ancient cerén village in central america mar 2002
... is the event dated by chronometric means. For the Cerén samples, the dated events are the death of the grass used for roof- ing thatch and the growth of the tree rings com- prising the wood. The ... clay-quarrying operations. The GPR-produced map of the site illustrates the preference of the Cerén inhabitants for building their structures on the north flank...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 15:51
university of california press losing face status politics in japan nov 1992
... heartfelt, going far beyond the call of duty in performing whatever work is required of them; in this way they gain a sense of meaning and purpose that fills their lives. In return they receive the ... him in the darkness and chided them jokingly, whereupon—to the wonderment of the audience sitting behind them the two junior men sprang to their feet in the dark...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:46
the university of north carolina press opium war 1840-1842 barbarians in the celestial empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates mar 1998
... filtered into the interior, and so reached the pipes of the Chinese. Just why the Chinese chose to obtain their supplies from India is no clearer than why, having obtained it, they smoked instead of ... draw upon the original prefacewesterners in China in the early decades of the nineteenth century and the war, the Opium War, that they brought on. The war is...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:18
university of california press the practice of everyday life dec 2002
... of the language. By adopting the point of view of enunciation—which is the subject of our study—we privilege the act of speaking; according to that point of view, speaking operates within the ... concerning the ordinary man: he performs a work of mourning by putting knowledge into the realm of fiction." The important thing here is the fact that the w...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44
university of hawaii press the chinese classic of family reverence a philosophical translation of the xiaojing feb 2009
... discussion by clinching their point. In sum, then, the reader of the Classic of Family Reverence needs to keep in mind both the routine life of the people and the rapid pace of change and violence ... Nevertheless, upon entering into China’s past, certain major themes will emerge as they are repeatedly expressed in different facets of Chinese life. One of thes...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:46