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Ecology and society in embroidered images from the Paracas Necropolisessay 1991 • Peters, Ann H. (Ann Hudson)
Coastal Andean Late Formative • South America > Central Andes
Peters examined the designs on the Paracas textiles in an attempt to find meanings in their design, and how the clues to the weavers’ relationships to the social and natural realms might reflect a common worldview. The focus is on the animal and plan...Ecology and society in embroidered images from the Paracas Necropolisessay 1991 • Peters, Ann H. (Ann Hudson)
Nazca • South America > Central Andes
The author examined the designs on the Paracas textiles in an attempt to find meanings in their design, and how the clues to the weavers’ relationships to the social and natural realms might reflect a common worldview. The focus is on the animal and ...