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large black decorative embossed (bird figure) hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 10"x12"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. minor rubbed spot top of spine. edges clean. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in fine cond. rubbed, few scratches & chips. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). color decorative endpapers. decorative 1/2 title pg. 6 pages of full color frontis. plates. 2 color title pg. 240p. "more than 300 photographs ~ half in full color". bibliography. index. archaeology. ancient history. art history. american indian history. prehistory. history of architecture ~ Text by Sylvio Acatos. Photos by Maximilien Bruggmann. Translated hy Barbara Fritzerneier. For almost fourteen centuries, ancient Native American cultures flourished in the Four Corners area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, the ancestors of today's Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo peoples. In this lavish volume, Sylvio Acatos and Maximilien Bruggmann create an informative, highly visual portrait of what we know to date about these fascinating civilizations. Archaeologists have now identified three main Pueblo cultures ~ the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi ~ whose civilizations peaked in the thirteenth century and mysteriously vanished before the arrival of the Europeans in the 1500s. Beginning with their migration into the Southwest 12,000 years ago, Pueblos traces the development of these cultures, from the changes in architecture ~ including pit houses, ceremonial kivas and massive complexes perched on canyon walls to the tools, weapons and jewelry they fashioned out of quartz, obsidian, turquoise, bone and other materials. Pueblos also highlights their everyday life, hunting and farming, burial and religious practices and trade with the great Meso~American civilizations to the south. But it is in the unsurpassed beauty of their basketry, pottery, and petroglyphs that these civilizations come alive, and their abstract renderings of men, animals, mysterious symbols and the natural elements will strike readers as both prehistoric and remarkably contemporary. Pueblos also includes an account of the rediscovery of the ancient ruins by archaeologists just over 100 years ago, as well as an annotated list of sites in the Southwest, where the descendants of these ancient cultures live and work today. In Pueblos, prize~winning photographer Maximilien Bruggmann has captured stunning evidence of the rich material culture of these tribes in more than 300 photographs half in full color ~ while Sylvio Acatos's graceful text seeks not only to unravel the story of their past, but also to place them into the greater context of prehistoric peoples everywhere.

Hardcover. Condizione: Gut. lizenzausgabe. groß oktav hardcover. gutes exemplar. seiten an der oberen ecke leicht geknickt; osu gering randlädiert; gebunden, original pappband mit prägung, mit farbig illustr. osu, 181 seiten ; mit zahlreichen photos, karten und ausklappbarer tafel ; übersetzer: braun, claus / dr. haas, suzanne (franz. - deutsch).

Couverture souple. Condizione: Comme neuf. Édition limitée. poids: 270gr, n°.2059, édition réservée aux amis et connaissances de l'imprimerie Ruckstuhl SA et des éditions des Terreaux.