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The Paracas problemessay 1991 • Silverman, Helaine
Coastal Andean Late Formative • South America > Central Andes
Silverman revisits Tello’s early twentieth century writings on the ceramics he recovered from the Paracas Peninsula, focusing on the proposition that they reveal ethnic differentiation on the south coast of Peru during the late Early Horizon and earl...A Nasca 8 occupation at an early Nasca sitearticle 1987 • Silverman, Helaine
Nazca • South America > Central Andes
The author describes the site of Cahuachi, previous excavations, and her excavation of the Room of the Posts, built in the latter half of the site’s apogee during during Nazca phases 3-4, and with continued ceremonial to the end of the tradition prop...Cahuachi in the ancient Nasca worldBook 1993 • Silverman, Helaine
Nazca • South America > Central Andes
The author describes the site of Cahuachi, previous excavations, and her own surface survey, excavations, most notably of the Room of the Posts. Detail is provided on the physical setting, looting, site layout, mound architecture, burials, trophy hea...The early Nasca pilgrimage center of Cahuachi and the Nazca linesessay 1990 • Silverman, Helaine
Nazca • South America > Central Andes
The author makes a case that the site of Cahuachi was a sacred place or a pilgrimage site, and that the geoglyphs or Nazca lines on the adjacent plain can be directly associated with it. Findings from excavations at Cahuachi are presented first, most...The Paracas problemessay 1991 • Silverman, Helaine
Nazca • South America > Central Andes
Silverman revisits Tello’s early twentieth century writings on the ceramics he recovered from the Paracas Peninsula, focusing on the proposition that they reveal ethnic differentiation on the south coast of Peru during the late Early Horizon and earl...The NascaBook 2002 • Silverman, Helaine & Proulx, Donald A.
Nazca • South America > Central Andes
This is a synthesis that aims to reconstruct the societal context for the existing archaeological record of Nazca material culture. The authors describe ceramics and iconography, sites and settlement patterns, the religious center of Cahuachi, agricu...