ARH204: Art & Architecture of the Ancient Americas  Tags: leibsohn fall09 arh art  

These encyclopedias provide good overviews of major ancient American sites. Article bibliographies list site reports and secondary literature in books and journals.

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Use these subject keywords to discover more books, exhibition catalogs, and other materials on topics related to your ARH204 assignment:

Archaeological Excavation Reports & Other Site Documentation

• Excavations (Archaeology) -- [country] -- [site], for example,
  Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Palenque (Chiapas)
• [name of site], for example,
  Macchu Picchu Site (Peru) | Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico)
• [name of place] -- antiquities, for example,
  Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) -- Antiquities

Guidebooks

• [name of country, region, city] -- Guidebooks, for example,
  Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Guidebooks
• [name of place] -- Description and travel, for example,
  Mexico City (Mexico) -- Description and travel 

Art and Architecture of the Ancient Americas

• [country, region, or culture] -- Antiquities, for example,
  Peru -- Antiquities | Mochica Indians -- Antiquities
• [country, region, or culture] -- Art
• [country, region, or culture] -- Architecture

Exhibition and Collection Catalogs

• Publication format subject keywords are:
  Exhibitions | Catalogs | Art collections | Private collections | Guidebooks
• Combine these with general and special topic subject keywords, for example:
  Aztec -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
  Aztec -- Art -- Exhibitions
• Combine these with museum or gallery names, for example:
  Art Institute of Chicago -- Catalogs | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- Exhibitions
  Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico) -- Guidebooks

Tourism

• Tourism | Culture and tourism | Heritage tourism | Architecture and tourism

Sacrifice

• Indians of [country or region] -- Rites and ceremonies, for example,
  Indians of Central America -- Rites and ceremonies
• [culture] -- rites and ceremonies, for example
  Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies | Maya -- Rites and ceremonies
• Human sacrifice -- [place], for example,
  Human sacrifice -- Mexico | Human sacrifice -- Peru
• Sacrifice | Animal sacrifice
• Violence -- Religious aspects | Body, Human -- Religious Aspects
• Death in art | Human sacrifice in art

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