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The Ancient Civilizations of Peru Paperback – December 6, 1988

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Inca gold no longer lures the conqueror - but the Quechua Indian still guides his llamas through the narrow-walled Inca streets of Cuzco, and the lost civilizations of Peru still call to the imagination across the centuries. And with reason - for radiocarbon dating places an embryonic civilization in Peru in 7566 BC, over 9000 years before Pizarro plundered the mature flowering of the Inca Empire. Other, less destructive, visitors have worked since then at Machu Picchu, at Cuzco, at Titicaca and myriad other sites to resurrect the rich variety of Inca and pre-Inca culture wiped out by the Spanish Conquest. The sum of their discoveries, archaeological, historical, artistic, geographical and ethnographical, is surveyed here by J.Alden Mason in a picture of the peoples and country of ancient Peru.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (December 6, 1988)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140203958
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140203950
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 5 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2008
    In 1957 this was a going thing?
    But a lot has been dug up on the civilizations involved
    including aerial photography of Nazca desert figures.
    The glossary of Spanish and Quechua words is very useful
    as is the history of the different surviving sites.
    He says that there is evidence of pre-Clovis people in South America well before it was accepted by the mainstream. The oceanic route to the new world seemed only remotely possible at the time,
    but seems to have gained a lot in even the last five years.
    The Inca were a bronze age culture and if the Spanish hadn't arrived,
    might in the near future have clashed with the Aztecs?
    I'm glad to have this book for reference.
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