Search Results: Archeology from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Architectural Press, 2000 4to (30.5 cm), VIII, 232 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. This volume presents a debate among some of the most famous architectural theorists, with modernism as the central theme--the most pressing issue of the 20th century. The book is a compilation of two Architectural Press titles. In the first, Pevsner and Richards argue that the austere rationality of the modern movement is ultimately losing ground. In contrast, Dennis Sharp examines the evidence to support the counter-argument.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1982 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 254 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 22-23, 1977 conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Introduction: the importance of late Post-Classic central Mexico for Mesoamerican studies" by H. B. Nicholson; "Tlazolteotl-Ixcuina: the great spinner and weaver" by Thelma D. Sullivan; "Analysis of the Aztec Quechquemitl: an exercise in inference" by Patricia Anawalt; "The formal pattern of anthropomorphic sculpture and the ideology of the Aztec State" by Felipe R. Solís Olguín; "Malinalco and the lords of Tenochititlan" by Richard F. Townsend; "Aztec legal process: the case of Texcoco" by Jerome A. Offner; "Archaeology and the art of Mexican picture writing" by Bodo Spranz; "The interpretation of postures and gestures in the Mixtec codices" by Nancy P. Troike; "Skeletonization in Mixtec art:… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 463 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers from a conference held in Oct. 1988 at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Teotihuacan: an introduction" by Susan T. Evans and Janet Catherine Berlo; "Economic and social implications of variations in mortuary practices at Teotihuacan" by Martha L. Sempowski; "Tlailotlacan, a Zapotec enclave in Teotihuacan" by Michael W. Spence; "Style in lapidary technology: identifying the Teotihuacan lapidary industry" by Margaret H. Turner; "A survey of recently excavated murals at Teotihuacan" by Ruben Cabrera Castro; "Icons and ideologies at Teotihuacan: the great goddess reconsidered" by Janet Catherine Berlo; "The iconography of mirrors at Teotihuacan" by Karl A. Taube; "Rulership, warfare, and human sacrifice at the Ciudadela: an iconographic study of feathered serpent representations" by Saburo… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996 4to (31 cm), VIII, 392 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political geography of the Aztec empire. It is the fruit of a joint research project among ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and art historians. The authors researched every town in the Aztec empire, recording a set of standard information for each. They drew a new map of the empire by first plotting local towns and city-states and then grouping these by province. This map, the first complete map of Aztec territory since Robert Barlow's 1949 study, reveals new principles of provincial organization.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1987 8vo (23.5 cm), VI, 513 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 8-9, 1983 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Templo Mayor research, 1521-1978" by Elizabeth Hill Boone; "The ethnohistorical record for the Huey Teocalli of Tenochtitlan" by Miguel Leon-Portilla; "Templo Mayor architecture: so what's new?" by Augusto F. Molina Montes; "Symbolism of ceramics from the Templo Mayor" by Doris Heyden; "Offering 48 of the Templo Mayor: a case of child sacrifice" by Juan Alberto Roman Berrelleza; "Mezcala style anthropomorphic artifacts in the Templo Mayor" by Carlos Javier Gonzalez Gonzalez; "The economics of Aztec luxury trade and tribute" by Frances F. Berdan; "Symbolism of the Templo Mayor" by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma; "The provenience of the offerings: tribute and cosmovision" by Johanna Broda; "The masked… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1975 8vo (24.5 cm), XII, 196 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 27, 1973 conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Spiro art and its mortuary contexts" by James A. Brown; "House of darkness and house of light : sacred functions of west Mexican funerary art" by Peter T. Furst; "Post-classic Mexican death imagery as a sign of cyclic completion" by Cecelia F. Klein; "Death and the ancient Maya" by Michael D. Coe; "Death-associated figures on Mochica pottery" by Elizabeth P. Benson; "The Paracas cemeteries : mortuary patterns in a Peruvian South coastal tradition" by Edward and Jane Powell Dwyer; "Eschatology in a participatory universe : destinies of the soul among the Warao Indians of Venezuela" by Johannes Wilbert; "Death and the afterlife in pre-Columbian America: closing remarks" by Michael D. Coe.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1971 8vo (24.5 cm), X, 124 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 26-27, 1968 conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Towards a re-evaluation of Chavín" by Luís Guillermo Lumbreras; "Chavín: an interpretation of its spread and influence" by Thomas C. Patterson; "Development of the Formative culture in the Ceja de Montaña of the Central Andes" by Seichi Izumi; "The tropical forest and the cultural context of Chavín" by Donald W. Lathrap; "The influence of Chavín art on later styles" by John H. Rowe.

Dumbarton Oaks, 1976 4to (26 cm), XVIII, 203 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front board (minor shelf-wear). Joyce Marcus reconstructs Classic Maya political organization through the use of evidence derived from epigraphy, settlement pattern surveys, and locational analysis. This study describes the development of a four-tiered settlement hierarchy and its subsequent collapse.

Cambridge University Press, 1998 4to (25.5 cm), xxix, 506 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (blank leaves at the back somewhat creased, canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb: "The societies of the European Bronze Age produced elaborate artifacts and were drawn into a wide trade network extending over the whole of Europe, even though they were economically and politically undiversified. Kristian Kristansen attempts to explain this paradox using a world-systems analysis, and in particular tries to account for the absence of state formation. He presents his case with a powerful marshalling of the evidence across the whole of Europe and over two millennia. The result is the most coherent overview of this period of European prehistory since the writings of Gordon Childe and Christopher Hawkes. A great strength of this book is the broad European perspective, which allows the author to address some of the larger questions that have been raised in the study of… Read More

Peabody Museum Press, 1986 4to (27 cm), XVIII, 346 pp. Printed wrappers (minor shelfwear). Excavations at Tepe Yahya describes the geographical and paleoenvironmental setting of Tepe Yahya and details the earliest architecture at the site, the production of ceramics and metallurgy, and the excavation's small finds. Interpretive essays examine settlement patterns, change and development over time, and the community's setting in the wider context of core-periphery interaction in the fifth and fourth millennia B.C.

Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, 1982 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 142 pp. Publisher's cloth. Papers presented at the October 14-15, 1978 Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium by Robert Sonin, Alan Sawyer, Christopher Donnan, Raphael Reichert, S. Henry Wassen, Esther Pasztory, Dicey Taylor, and Augusto Molina-Montes.

Yale University Press, 1997 4to (26.5 cm), 232 pp, Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "The story of Sir Austen Henry Layard's rediscovery of ancient Assyria and its fabled capital, Nineveh, is one of the great tales of the nineteenth century, uniting archaeological imperialism, genius, and romance. No less remarkable is the story of the collection, dispersal, and then frantic re-acquisition in the twentieth century of the world's greatest Assyrian collection ever to be in private hands. In this fascinating history of the reception of ancient Assyrian art in England and subsequently in America, John Malcolm Russell recounts the story of the huge collection of artifacts that Layard brought back to England. Much went to the British Museum, but much also to the fascinating Lady Charlotte Guest and then, via a Manhattan dealer and numerous competitive curators and millionaires, to the Metropolitan Museum. The last of Layard's Assyrian sculptures, discovered by the author in a private… Read More

Bombay: Bombay Education Society's Press, 1905 8vo (21.5 cm), XIV, 197 pp.Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine (endpapers slightly stained). "This work contains a Review of the Papers and Notes on Iranian subjects, read before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, during the last 100 years (1804-1904)."

Archäologisches Landesmuseum, Schleswig, 1991 4to (28 cm), 423 pp, [8] leaves. Publisher's laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). Exhibition catalog published by Archaeological State Museum of the Christian-Albrechts-University Schleswig and Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Kiev in cooperation with the Department of Pre- and Protohistory of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory of the Christian- Albrechts University Kiel. The archeology of the equestrian nomads of Eastern Europe on the basis of diverse and valuable finds from the museums of Ukraine.

Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, 2004 4to (28.5cm), XXII, 234 pp, 144 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered spine and front board. From the publisher's description: "Hellenistic art in Asia Minor is characterized by diverse cultural influences, both indigenous and Greek. This work presents a comprehensive catalogue of the Hellenistic pottery found at Sardis by two archaeological expeditions. The main catalogue includes over 750 items from the current excavations; in addition, material from some 50 Hellenistic tombs excavated in the early twentieth century is published in its entirety for the first time. The early Hellenistic material consists of imports from Greek cities and close local imitations, along with purely Lydian wares typical of the "late Lydian" phase that followed the Persian conquest. By the late Hellenistic period, Sardis boasts a full range of Greek shapes and styles; indeed, the influence of new conquerors, the Romans, was felt as well. Thus the ceramic… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1983 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 263 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding slightly rubbed). Papers presented at the conference held at Dumbarton Oaks on October 18-19, 1980. Contents include: "Comparison of agrotechnologies in the basin of Mexico and central Maya lowlands" by B.L. Turner; "An instrument of expansion" by C. Coggins; "Obsidian trade and Teotihuacan influence in Mesoamerica" by R. S. Santley; "Teotihuacan, the Maya, and ceramic interchange" by J. W. Ball; "The foreign impact on lowland Mayan language and script" by J. S. Justeson; "Kings and classicism" by M. J. Becker; "Outside influence at Cacaxtla" by J. Quirarte; "A comparison of highland Zapotec and lowland Maya graphic styles" by F. S. Clancy.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1991 4to (31 cm), X, 321 pp, 4 folding plates in the back pocket. Publisher's cloth (corners slightly scuffed). Papers resulting from the 15-17 May 1985 round table. Contents include: 1."A history of Hari Studies and Introduction to current interpretations" by William H. Isbell and Gordon F. McEwan; 2. "Architecture and Spatial Organization at Huari" by William H. Isbell, Christine Brewster-Wray and Lynda E. Spickard; 3. "Cheqo Wasi Huari" by Mario Benavides; 4. "Archaeological Excavations in the Vegachayoq Moqo Sector of Huari" by Enrique Bragayrac; 5. "A Community of Potters" by Denize Pozzi-Escot; 6. "Investigation at the Pikillacta Site: A Provincial Huari Center in the Valley of Cuzco" by Gordon F. McEwan; 7. "Colonies and Conquest: Tiahuanaco and Huari in Moquegua" by Michael E. Moseley, Robert A. Feldman, Paul S. Goldstein, Luis Watanabe; 8. "Huari and… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1993 8vo (23.5 cm), VIII, 373 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 11-12, 1986 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "The making of Latin American horizons : an introduction to the volume" by Don Stephen Rice; "An overview of "horizon" and "horizon style" in the study of ancient American objects" by Rebecca Stone-Miller; "The Chavin horizon: stylistic chimera of socioeconomic metamorphosis?" by Richard L. Burger; "'Olmec' horizons in formative period Mesoamerica: diffusion or social evolution?" by David C. Grove; "An image is worth a thousand words: Teotihuacan and the meanings of style in classic Mesoamerica" by Esther Pasztory; "Mesoamerican horizons and the cultural transformations of Maya civilization" by Arthur A. Demarest and Antonia E. Foias; "Understanding Tiwanaku: conquest, colonization, and clientage in… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1993 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 482 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 7-8, 1989 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Eighth-century physical geography, environment, and natural resources in the Maya lowlands" by Don S. Rice; "The economics of social power and wealth among eighth-century Maya households" by Patricia A. McAnany; "The social organization of the late classic Maya: problems of definition and approaches" by Robert J. Sharer; "Ancient Maya political organization" by Joyce Marcus; "The topography of ancient Maya religious pluralism: a dialogue with the present" by Gary H. Gossen and Richard M. Leventhal; "A view of ancient Maya settlements in the eighth century" by Gair Tourtellot; "Pottery, potters, palaces, and polities: some socioeconomic and political implications of late classic Maya ceramic industries" by Joseph W. Ball;… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1989 4to (31 cm), VII, 244 pp, folding plate. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). "This book deals with a transitional episode in Mesoamerican prehistory: the decline of Teotihuacan in the eighth and ninth centuries A.D. If René Millon is correct, that Teotihuacan influenced the entire civilized world of Mesoamerica, the demise of this great city triggered one of the most pervasive transformations in the long history of the region’s civilization. This book examines the cultures of that era and the effects that Teotihuacan’s decline had on them. Papers based on the 1984 Summer Seminar, Cultural Adjustments after the Decline of Teotihuacan." (from the publisher's synopsis)