Book
The Recuay culture: a reconstruction based on artistic motifs
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1997 • Pages:
By: Smith, John Williamson.
Abstract
In this dissertation the author uses an art historical approach to the comparative method to analyze Peruvian art styles of the late Early Horizon through the early Middle Horizon periods in order to reconstruct the Early Intermediate Period (200 B.C.-600 A.D.) Recuay culture -- the primary focus of this work. The art styles of prior, coeval, and subsequent cultures contiguous to the Recuay area in the north highlands of Peru were analyzed and compared as units or cultural wholes (p.vii). Pashash, in the Department of Ancash, Peru, was the site chosen by Smith to act in the role of control or type matrix for the Recuay style. Artistic products from sites in the adjacent Callejon de Huaylas, the heartland of the Recuay culture, were then incorporated to formulate an expanded definition of the Recuay culture as a construct. Then the Recuay art style, including ceramic material and modes of manufactue, techniques of ceramic decoration and the resultant motifs, stone sculpture style and motifs, and architectural construction style and forms, was compared to the art syles of temporally or spatially related Peruvian cultures (pp.vii-viii).
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Central Andes
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Notes
- by John Williamson Smith, Jr.
- UM 7900636
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-361)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Austin
- LCSH
- Indians of South America--Antiquities