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Edited by
Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks,
Susan Toby Evans and
No. 2 SUSAN TOBY EVANS AND JOANNE PILLSBURY
Karl A. Taube Joanne Pillsbury
Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Among the most sumptuous buildings of
Panama, and Colombia antiquity were royal palaces. As in the Old
Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes, eds. World, kings and nobles of ancient
Mexico and Peru had luxurious adminis-
Archaeology of Formative Ecuador trative quarters in cities, and exquisite
J. Scott Raymond and Richard L. Burger, pleasure palaces in the countryside. This
eds. volume explores the great houses of the
ancient New World, from palaces of the
Gender in Pre-Hispanic America Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish
Cecelia F. Klein, ed. conquistadors, to those lost high in the
Andes and deep in the Maya jungle.
Sandals From Coahuila Caves
Walter W. Taylor Palaces are private residences, but, like
their occupants, they play a very public
role. Beyond their imposing physical pres-
ence, they are inherently rich in informa-
tion about the social contexts of the soci-
eties that made them. How did palace
plete list of available publications architecture serve to reflect and reiterate
may be obtained by visiting the the power and legitimacy of the ruling
Publications page at: te? The articles in this volume investi-
gate how these palaces facilitated and sup-
ported rulers, and how they functioned
within the context of empires, states, and
complex chiefdoms.
This volume, the first pendi-
um of elite residences of the high cultures
of the New World, presents definitive des-
criptions and interpretations by leading
scholars in the field. Authoritative yet acces-
sible, this extensively illustrated book will
serve as an importa